Installing MacPorts on pure Darwin

[Anders F Björklund]

Jeremy Huddleston:

>> I assume you mean "Can I install MacPorts on pure Darwin?" The  
>> answer is yes, but note that the name of the project was changed  
>> from DarwinPorts to MacPorts some time ago to emphasize the fact  
>> that it is designed for and tested on Mac OS X, not Darwin. Many  
>> ports should work on Darwin, and if you find one that doesn't but  
>> should, please file a ticket.
>
> One such caveat will likely be X11.  The client libs and apps will  
> build, but xorg-server is just for building XQuartz (the "pure"  
> darwin DDX bitrotted and was punted out of xorg-server), so you'll  
> probably need to also install the XFree86 package to get an X11  
> server.  I have no idea if it will work or not.

There was a system X11 on Darwin 7, and the XFree86 port works fine  
on Darwin 8.

  47M    packages/darwin/x86/XFree86-4.5.0_2+puredarwin.x86.tgz
  47M    packages/darwin/x86/XFree86-4.7.0_0+puredarwin.x86.tgz

See the wiki page <http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/xfree86> for  
Darwin 9...

--anders