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Building AEM on PPC G3 running MacOS X 10.4

2 messages · Magnus Bein, Brian Ripley

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I am setting up ordination packages on my R platform and have  
questions for installing the PCNM package. I am running an older  
platform: iBook G3 (PPC processor), Mac OS 10.4.11, with R ver.  
2.10.1 (installed from universal binary). I also have X-Code (ver.  
3.4) installed. I tried to build some of the packages in the Darwin  
terminal and run into some problems with AEM installation via the  
PCNM compilation:
From a previous attempt to install PCNM (before I installed XCode),  
I ran into these errors:
[...snip...]
[attached dependent packages successfully until:]
So then I attempted to build AEM first:
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There is no Xcode 3.4 to my knowledge, and certainly not for 10.4. 
Perhaps you meant 2.4, in which case you need to update it.  From 
memory (we no longer support Tiger binaries) Xcode 2.4.1 is needed and 
2.5 is the last version for Tiger.

Alterntively (and better), build R 2.11.0 from the sources on your 
machine.
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Magnus Bein wrote:

            
That is not recommended on Mac OS X, and everywhere we recommend you 
first use build (not build --binary) to make a tarball, then INSTALL 
it.  For how to package Mac OS X binary packages, see that FAQ.

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