Found two machines to test on, OS/X 10.3 and 10.5. At the time of this writing (Wed Jul 6 13:17:48 PDT 2011), 10.3 is very old, but 10.5 is mostly current.

Changes

• 10.3
  • Had to turn to bz2 for compression because the test machine had little RAM, but that's not all bad.
  • Also, the encoding test failed (old bash?)
  • My set -o pipefail's were erroring (old bash?)
  • And the hostname needed to be downcased to get incrementals working; feels like a regression.
• 10.5
  • Had to blacklist /usr/bin/python - it's broken for tarfile with a bufsock object for file-like object. CPython 2.7 and CPython 3.2 from python.org worked fine though.

Getting set up:

• Python
  • On 10.3, install CPython 3.2.
    • wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2/python-3.2-macosx10.3.dmg
    • hdiutil mount python-3.2-macosx10.3.dmg
    • sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/Python\ 3.2/Python.mpkg -target /
  • 10.5.8 apparently ships with 2.5.1, which normally should be adequate, but wasn't.
• Install Fink (not sure this helped, but maybe there was something I didn't realize that was worthwhile - EG for 10.3):
  • hdiutil mount Fink-0.7.2-Installer.dmg
  • sudo bash
  • source ~Strombrg/drs-bashrc
  • cd /Volumes/Fink-0.7.2-Installer
  • installer -pkg Fink\ 0.7.2\ Installer.pkg -target /
  • Add "test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh" (or source /sw/bin/init.sh) to ~/.bashrc for relevant accounts, or run and answer the question(s):
  • /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
  • fink scanpackages
  • fink index
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install fink

• Preparations
  • How to tell what version of OS/X you're on.
  • Installing a .dmg from the command line
  • About OS/X

    Version number	Version name
    10.2	Jaguar
    10.3	Panther
    10.4	Tiger
    10.5	Leopard
    10.6	Snow Leopard

  • Note that Fink claims to go back to 10.3, but Macports only claims to go back to 10.4 "Tiger".
  • Dependencies - relative to OS/X 10.3 "Panther".

    Dependency	Version required	OS/X 10.3 ships with	Might get a nice version from
    make	Unknown	* 10.3: Seemed included - unless it was part of the default fink install back then * 10.5: Not in the default install	* 10.3: Didn't need one (?) Or got it from Fink, not sure. * 10.5: Got it from fink.
    Subversion	Unknown, but I have 1.6.12 at home.	Probably not included with 10.3	10.3: Not included; Fink had 1.1.3, which was too old to do some or all of my externals. 10.5: SVN 1.4.4 came with the OS, still had problems with my externals. The Fink version was also too old.
    m4	Unknown, but I'm using GNU m4 1.4.14 at home	GNU m4 1.4	The included version worked fine
    Python	>= 2.5	* OS/X 10.3 ships with Python 2.3, which is too old. * 10.5.8 comes with 2.5.1	*There's a 3.2 for 10.3 and up here; this worked fine. Happily, ./this-interpreter automatically skips /usr/bin/python in this case because it's too old. * The 2.5.1 included with 10.5 seems to be broken. Downloading 3.2 or 2.7 works though. I've blacklisted /usr/bin/python where Darwin is detected.
    gcc (and its dependencies)	Something that'll build xz	Comes with "XCode"? But the dev files seem missing.	* 10.3: This went unsatisfied - XCode 1.5 is very old, but the last version that'll work on 10.3, and Fink's gcc didn't include crt1.o (?) or (some?) header files * 10.5: Didn't bother; bz2 was good enough for testing.
    xz	Unknown. I'm using 4.999.9beta at home	Neither 10.3 nor 10.5.8 include xz. Neither does Fink for 10.3 or 10.5.8.	This was hard to satisfy, so I backed off and used bzip2 as a fallback for xz.
    find	Almost any find should do.	Includes a BSD find. Has -print0 but not -printf	The included one worked fine, other than the optional -printf test