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Make targets added, specific for Ingo's Mac OS X. These are: $ make TARGET=for_macports_gnu install $ make TARGET=for_macports_openmpi install
author Peter Jacobs <peterj@mech.uq.edu.au>
date Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:39:29 +1000
parents 9a17acd9c121
children 8f67b0bbc7c5
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--- a/doc/sphinx/getting-started.rst	Wed Jun 06 15:18:15 2012 +1000
+++ b/doc/sphinx/getting-started.rst	Sun Jun 10 22:39:29 2012 +1000
@@ -134,10 +134,15 @@
 popt, readline, SWIG and Tcl/Tk can either be installed from source
 or via a package manager such as MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) or 
 Fink (http://www.finkproject.org/).
-If possible, it is recommended to install these dependencies from source.
-The required Python packages (numpy, scipy and matplotlib) are all available
-as pre-packaged binaries for OSX on sourceforge.net, although they can also
-be installed from source if necessary.
+
+Notes:
+
+#. If possible, it is recommended to install these dependencies from source.
+#. The required Python packages (numpy, scipy and matplotlib) are all available
+   as pre-packaged binaries for OSX on sourceforge.net, although they can also
+   be installed from source if necessary.
+#. Ingo has had a good experience installing binary packages from MacPorts,
+   the only subtly being the need to install swig and swig-python.
 
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