I'm thinking of installing XCode so I can compile and install NTFS-3G on my Mac mini. There's a lengthy way of going about this at AppleNova:
http://forums.applenova.com/showpost.ph ... stcount=11

The thing is, this instruction was written a while ago and the latest (20070207-RC1) release note mentions "fix: Mac OS X portability improvements". So do I still need to replace linux*) with *) in step 4 and do I need all that CFLAGS and --prefix in step 7?

In other words, is it now a simple ./configure -> make -> sudo make install on OS X, or are all those stuff still a requirement? Oh, and I need pkg-config installed first, right? Do I need anything else?

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, wesley wrote:


This step is not correct technically even if it works on Mac OS X. It
replaces Linux to anything (all OS). It should be replaced to Linux
and Mac OS X.


The CFLAGS is a MacFUSE requirement afaik, and the prefix is redundant
since the default used which is fairly unlucky since it can cause all short
of problems because the binary can't be found in certain cases.