Homebrew is generally a bit nicer than MacPorts, as it doesn’t require lots of sudo action. Here’s an article that guided me to upgrading my install of bash: http://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/03/upgrade-bash-to-40-in-mac-os-x.html As for steps: Install Homebrew from the docs on their homepage Install Git using Homebrew (optional, but nice to have a more up-to-date git) brew install … Read more
Dropping the 10.5 SDK is also a problem for software which does not use Xcode for the build system, but expects (perhaps foolishly) for specific SDKs to be in place. To add the SDK back, I re-installed the MacOSX10.5.pkg from the Xcode 3.2.6 download. It is in a hidden folder named “Packages” on the disk … Read more
Thanks to @jessenoller on Twitter I have an answer that fits my needs – you can compile lxml with static dependencies, hence avoiding messing with the libxml2 that ships with OS X. Here’s what worked for me: cd /tmp curl -O http://lxml.de/files/lxml-3.6.0.tgz tar -xzvf lxml-3.6.0.tgz cd lxml-3.6.0 python setup.py build –static-deps –libxml2-version=2.7.3 –libxslt-version=1.1.24 sudo python … Read more
The System keychain is for System wide items. So if you were to have an identity for you laptop, that would be in your System keychain. Every user has access to it as well, so it’s a good place for things like SSL certificates. It also takes admin credentials modify it. On the flip side, … Read more
Put following script in ~/bin/ssh (ensure ~/bin/ is checked before /usr/bin/ in your PATH): #!/bin/sh HOSTNAME=`echo $@ | sed s/.*@//` set_bg () { osascript -e “tell application \”Terminal\” to set background color of window 1 to $1″ } on_exit () { set_bg “{0, 0, 0, 50000}” } trap on_exit EXIT case $HOSTNAME in production1|production2|production3) set_bg … Read more
You can’t do this with the Finder. Open Terminal.app (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal), and type: > cd /path/to/directory/containing/htaccess > mv current_file_name .htaccess Example (do not take directory names or initial filename literally, of course):
From the Apple Developer Forum (account required): “The compiler and linker are capable of using features and performing optimizations that do not work on older OS versions. -mmacosx-version-min tells the tools what OS versions you need to work with, so the tools can disable optimizations that won’t run on those OS versions. If you need … Read more
The quick answer is: Yes, we can! Before I get to the “how it is done” part, here are some notes about my patch/hack/fix. Right from the start the major goals have been: Keep all modifications to an absolute minimum. We want to keep the Xcode setups as original as possible. By all means, try … Read more