{"id":32,"date":"2007-01-16T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2007-01-16T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T01:36:06","slug":"mac-os-x-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple reports of issues with the OS X libraries as shipped with the book.\u00a0 The problem appears to be that the libraries are compiled for Mac OS 10.2, but don&#8217;t work so well with 10.3 and particularly 10.4 and up.\u00a0 And the fact that they are compiled for a PowerPC architecture doesn&#8217;t help the new Intel machines.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is simple: recompile the libraries.\u00a0 To do so, you&#8217;ll need to make sure that all the files are writeable.\u00a0 Open a terminal window and change to the &#8220;common&#8221; directory and then type:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>make clean PLATFORM=OSX<br \/>\nmake PLATFORM=OSX<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you still have issues after doing this, let me know and we&#8217;ll try to track it down.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this is the same procedure you&#8217;ll have to follow for the Linux builds, except that the platform doesn&#8217;t need to be specified.\u00a0 While the libraries are compiled under an older version of Mandrake, there is no guarantee that they will work for other Linux builds or versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple reports of issues with the OS X libraries as shipped with the book.\u00a0 The problem appears to be that the libraries are compiled for Mac OS 10.2, but don&#8217;t work so well with 10.3 and particularly 10.4 and up.\u00a0 And the fact that they are compiled for a PowerPC architecture doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialmath.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}