Hi,
MacPorts, Brew, and Posix are all ery different philosophies on setting up a development environment for OSX. Thay all have their merits and drawbacks. Once you select one of these, you are stuck with it forever (or recompile everything), so you should learn about them and make an educated decision. Personally, I would never use MacPorts or Brew, and prefer Posix. But that's my opinion.
Are you referring to Posix as in the IEEE standard, or something else ? If the standard, then I don't think you can compare it to packaging systems like MacPorts or Brew, which are completely different beasts. I use MacPorts (which would be my choice here) and that builds plenty of Posix standard applications. what a package manager does for you is handle the dependencies, installation, upgrades and uninstallation etc. etc. If you just want to use applications, something like MacPorts is the way to go. If you are developing, then developing within the Posix standard (which you can do with the MacPorts framework) is a good idea. Chris
Whatever your decision is, it's very important to install pkgconfig FIRST before installing anything else. Gtk can then be built in that development environment.
Hope this helps. Dave
On Feb 27, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Pascal <p.p14@orange.fr> wrote:
Hello, I'm new to the list but I'm using X11 since the beginning, thus first I want to thanks all the team for making X11 still available on MacOS.
One suggestion, as XQuartz provide some packages with pkgconfig spec as /opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc, is it possible to provide pkgconfig itself in XQuartz release ?
I need pkgconfig to build gtk. Is there a chance to have gtk included in a next release?
Regards, Pascal. http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr
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