Using MacIrssi on my iBook now. The stupid problems with the Terminal app wore me out. The alt key is either meta (which you basically need to quickly switch channels in irssi), or it is used for “hidden” characters like [ ] | \ { } and @ – things you need in every second sentence if you’re like me, haha. Yeah, probably only true on some European keyboards. I have a Swiss German keyboard.
I finally found what was nagging me about installing Perl modules from CPAN. I always got a weird message about a missing perl.h file. I found the solution on macosxhints.com: I was missing developer tools. I found something called Xcode Installer on my a harddisk and decided to install it after finding “Developer tools” in the PDF file nearby. And: Success!
Then I installed X using fink, and installed xfig. Works! The window manager is twm, however. Need to change that. That was the easy part, however, since xfig comes in a binary package. Inkscape only comes in a source package. I’m still compiling that one as I write.
Compiling takes forever on the iBook.
The only hackish thing I did was delete t/heuristic.t from URI-1.30.tar.gz because it kept failing,
Oh and isomer on #macosx recommended I use darwinports.org instead of fink. A bit too late; I don’t want to begin compiling again. And with fink I get to at least skip compiling X11 and friends. Those are available as binary packages.
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Ah, so you tried inkscape? impressive stuff
– AadityaSood 2005-02-17 04:53 UTC
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I’ve used 0.40 before on my SlackWare box, and it was ok; an earlier version I tried on my Debian box crashed about once every half hour. Totally impossible to decently work with it. So really the only reason I’m installing it is because of InkscapeToOddmuse and OddmuseToInkscape.
– Alex Schroeder 2005-02-17 08:11 UTC