Mac OS X Installation Instructions

Prerequisites

• git
• haskell (ghc)
• wget
• expr (coreutils)
• mktemp (coreutils)

Git

• Newer version of macos have git available
• Otherwise it can be installed from ​http://git-scm.com/download as mpkg
• 'git' is available now from a Terminal

Haskell

• Download haskell from ​http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
• Run mpkg
• 'ghc' should be available now from a Terminal

Wget

• ftp ​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.13.4.tar.gz
• tar -xvzf wget-1.13.4.tar.gz
• cd wget-1.13.4
• ./configure --without-ssl
• sudo make install

Coreutils

• ftp ​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.13.tar.gz
• tar xzvf coreutils-8.13.tar.gz
• cd coreutils-8.13
• not sure if you want to install this over the system versions, so install into a separate area
• ./configure --disable-acl --prefix=/usr/local/coreutils

The normal Aesop build should now work if you add /usr/local/coreutils/bin to your path.

• export PATH=/usr/local/coreutils/bin:${PATH}