On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Joseph Noel
I was trying to install the latest nightly build but get error (shown after my salutation) when using the recommended procedure: ./install --prefix=/Applications/ Previously, I always installed from source so I could run the 64-bit version on Mac since I have some structures that require as much memory as possible. Should I just go back to that? It does take about an hour to install on my laptop. I assume this latest 64-bit option would significantly reduce the time for installation since I wouldn't be compiling from the source.
There were several bugs in the install script - the convoluted workaround for using the 32-bit binary installer on Snow Leopard was causing problems for the 64-bit binary installer. I've patched the installer to fix the problem, and a new version is now posted online. It may have the side effect of breaking the forwards compatibility of the 32-bit build, but I will test and fix this tomorrow. (This is the first time the 64-bit build has actually run; Apple's habit of overengineering seemingly simple things like Unix user accounts made it surprisingly difficult to get our automation working.) -Nat (PS. the choice of kernel is irrelevant - 10.6 will always be detected as x86_64, and the 64-bit build should work with either kernel.)