MacIntel not advised for scientific researchers.
March 26th, 2006
I had problems with almost all scientific libraries I tried.
gmp builds only if you use –host=none-apple-darwin. That means you are disabling assembly optimizations (and you probably wouldn’t want to . And that option was correctly set for plain gmp, but not for gmp-cxx-wrappers (Gregory Wrigh has no access to a Mac intel, now he should have fixed it).
cln is plainly broken. That means you can’t use GiNaC too. I think someone should buy cln’s developers a MacMini Intel.
If you want to use OCaml, you have to use a cvs special version, since the stable does not yet compile. The solution is here.
In fact I had lots of problems. The guys at darwin ports have been really nice (using dp is just the quickest way to install this kind of software), but there are *lots* of troubles. The same installation on my powerbook G4 went just fine (of course the took a lot to finish, but they did finish).
Portfile for ntl on MacIntel was broken too (now it’s fixed).
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