Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

[Michael Dickens]

Ah; a subtle, but important, difference in phrasing between that needs  
to be pointed out for those who might be thinking of doing GTK2+Quartz  
on OSX:

(1) On Jul 19, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> One of the things that the guys working on GTK+ mentioned was that  
> you should completely uninstall MacPorts ...

versus (2) < http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gtk-osx/wiki/Build >

> If you have MacPorts or Fink installed, you must remove all traces  
> of them from your environment

* "Removing all traces from your environment" means configuring your  
terminal shell so that it does not use MacPorts or Fink in any  
capacity.  In general, that means removing /opt/local or /sw from all  
environment variables -- or, as they recommend, just started from a  
fresh user setup since it won't reference /opt or /sw .

* "Completely uninstall MacPorts" mean (effectively) "sudo rm -rf /opt/ 
local", which is a draconian solution just to get gtk2 running under  
quartz.  I think most of us OSX developers rely to some degree on  
MacPorts or Fink, so this isn't a practical solution.

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also of note, if you do use MacPorts, you can do "port info gtk2  
+quartz +no_x11":
{{{
gtk2 @2.20.1
Variants:             +no_x11, +quartz, universal, x11

Description:          This is GTK+ version 2.x. GTK+, which stands for  
Gimp
                      ToolKit, is a library for creating GUIs for the  
X Windows
                      System.
Homepage:             http://www.gtk.org/

Build Dependencies:   pkgconfig
Library Dependencies: tiff, jasper, atk, pango, gettext
Runtime Dependencies: shared-mime-info
}}}
which certainly implies to me that the MacPorts folks have figured out  
a way to get the quartz version working without either of the options  
mentioned above.  I haven't tried this variant of GTK2, but it's good  
to know that it's there & maybe I will try it in the future sometime.  
- MLD