My first attempts for making Krusader available for Mac OS X where
based on fink [1], which was quite complicated and involved a lot of
manual steps.
Recently I tried out MacPorts [2] which I like much more. It is
inspired by the BSD port system and provides i.e. package variants
like the gentoo's portage USE-flags and can be used to create binary
installers for every package. Some weeks ago, Portfiles for kde4 have
been added and the installation is now as easy as
$ sudo port install kdebase4-runtime
Well, at least that's the theory. I created some patches for the kde4
portfiles, containing mainly missing dependencies. These have been
already included by the maintainer so it should be fine now. The last
stumbling block is that Qt4 has to be installed with the ssl variant,
else kdelibs4 fail to compile.
So, now you can either add "+ssl" to the default variants in /opt/
local/etc/macports/variants.conf, or simply install Qt with this
variant before kde4
$ sudo port install qt4-mac +ssl
$ sudo port install kdebase4-runtime
I've also created a Portfile for Krusader [3] with the goal that at
the time of releasing the final Krusader-2.0.0, the installation on
Mac OS X consists only in
$ sudo port install krusader
(after having installed MacPorts, obviously)
[1] http://www.finkproject.org
[2] http://www.macports.org/
[3] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17731
bye,
Jonas