OT: minimac

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005, ryanx at indy.rr.com wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Fairlight said:
>
>> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Enrique Arredondo done said:
>> > Can filepro run on the minimac's linux-like operating system ?
>> 
>> >From the specs at store.apple.com:
>> 
>>      1.25GHz PowerPC G4
>> 
>> The answer is, "No."  
>> 
>> fP for Linux is x86-only, unless you go with their iSeries port, which is
>> meant for...well, the iSeries CPU's.
>
>I wonder why. Its compiled on on a PowerPC running 64-bit Linux.
>Seems to me it should run on any like system. 

It's possible that the build files that work on PowerPC Linux
won't on OS X since darwin has some rather different options to
handle linking of shared libraries.

Bill
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