Macs

[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Tue, September 15, 2009 23:44, Michael Haney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> And just for the record. UNIX != Linux, in case Unix compatibility
>> makes you think that MacOS X is in any way Linux "compatible".
>>
>
> I found that out a long time ago.  Their binary formats are completely
> different.

I always thought that Unix compatible was more or less synonymous for
source-compatible, as in "write once, compile everywhere".

Of course the executable format is different, but if you could grab the
source of a Mac program (AND all of its dependencies), wouldn't it at
least in theory be possible to recompile from scratch? My gut feeling
tells me that this should at least be true for simple console
applications.

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Amedee