[Ifeffit] Building ifeffit Mac Mountain Lion

[Matt Newville]

Hi Jeff,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:32 PM, IIT <terryj at iit.edu> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> No problem.  I have succeeded in building and running ifeffit and pgplot on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I thought this was the first step in building Demeter?
>
> Should I be using Larch instead for this?
>

I'd say Yes.   I may be biased, but not using PGPLOT is at least one
obvious benefit.    But, I think Demeter may not be ready for
distribution with Larch.    Bruce is working on it, and I think Athena
is more or less working, but I don't know the full status.

Either with Ifeffit or Larch as the back end, getting wxPerl working
on OS X seems to be a large hassle.  I've tried and failed several
times on 10.6.8 (my current MacBook Pro is that out-of-data, I
suppose).  I'm willing to believe that having installed wxPython many
times on this machine has trashed it for wxPerl.  But I have tried
(only once) building wxPerl on an 10.8 Mac mini at by beamline.... and
also failed.   It looks to be possible with MacPorts, but I have not
succeeded in doing this myself.

So, if you can solve that, I think the Mac OS X users would be very
grateful.....

--Matt