Intel OS X... I'm late to the party

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>In the relative spacial/temporal region of
>Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:49:47PM -0800, Bill Campbell achieved the spontaneous
>generation of the following:
>> 
>> I had lunch with an old friend who has a quad-process Mac with
>> three monitors.  He's running XP under paralles on one monitor,
>> and also has a Solaris session running (he works for Sun doing
>> support so has to do Solaris).  I suppose you could run Linux
>> under parallels and FilePro under that.
>
>I don't get it.  There's fP for FBSD.  OS/X is FBSD under the hood.  Why
>would it not run natively on the same x86 hardware?

Some of the OS X infrastructure is a bit different (e.g. the way they
handle program startup at boot time),

Building software on OS X can present some ``interesting'' challenges
with shared libraries and linking as well.

I've managed to build a fair number of packages from the OpenPKG portable
packaging system under OS X 10.4.8 (Tiger) on the PowerPC, but have run
into some problems I haven't figure out yet.

Bill
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