Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

The non-*nix “quirks” on Apple’s “Unix” extend beyond the absence of
X11. Here’s a small excerpt from Blender’s build scripts, to show the
sort of “quirks” I mean:

if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
  # Optionally build without pre-compiled libraries.
  # NOTE: this could be supported on all platforms however in practice UNIX is the only platform
  # that has good support for detecting installed libraries.
  option(WITH_LIBS_PRECOMPILED "\
Detect and link against pre-compiled libraries (typically found under \"../lib/\"). \
Disabling this option will use the system libraries although cached paths \
that point to pre-compiled libraries will be left as-is."
    ON
  )
  mark_as_advanced(WITH_LIBS_PRECOMPILED)

  option(WITH_STATIC_LIBS "\
Try to link with static libraries, as much as possible, \
to make blender more portable across distributions"
    OFF
  )
endif()