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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: What usenet client are you using?
Date: 26 Feb 2015 15:32:27 GMT
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On 2015-02-26, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <cl8nj0Fe6amU3@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Same as you would on any other platform, yes.
>
> Well, yes, but (aside from bloated co-systems like MacFartbrewports) OS 
> X doesn't have a "package manager" that will download (and build 
> possibly, depending on the distribution) the dependencies for you. So 
> one pretty much has to run the configure script and see what it says 
> about what you don't have.

Yes, and slang is the only dependency you need to worry about for slrn.
You configure, make and install two packages: slang, then slrn, and you
are done.

> Gnu software is a bit stupid, even though it works and you need it. You 
> want to build pkg-config, but it needs glib. So you want to build glib, 
> and it says it can't find gettext. So you try to build gettext and it 
> says it can't find glib. Like that. (Gettext has a built-in glib you can 
> use to "bootstrap" the thing but it's not obvious without poring over 
> the options).

None of that is required for slrn.

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