net-dialup/minicom-2.1-r1 builds, installs and works on macos. However, some notes: If the platform is "macos", the following line should probably be appended to the minirc.dfl file after it is installed in /etc/minicom: pr port /dev/cu.modem This will allow minicom to work out of the box. Also, by default, you can only run it as root. It correctly detects the lock file directory of /var/spool/lock during configuration, but it is not world writable. Changing /var/spool/lock to mode 1777 allows regular users to run minicom out of the box. Maybe a note about this should be printed? It would be nice to just change the permissions, but the disk utility would probably reset this any time a repair is done. Is there a way to update what OS X thinks is the correct permission spec? (i.e. like with /etc/mtree on BSD)
Oops, one more thing. It seems that root has to access the modem as /dev/cu.modem and regular users must use /dev/tty.modem, even though both are world readable and writeable, otherwise you get a "No such file or directory" error. Hmm, not sure how to automatically pick the right one.
Just wanted to verify that the minicom-2.1-r1 ebuild works for me as well. However, on 10.3.5 I initially ran into a blocking problem because of: existing file /usr/lib/charset.alias is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/locale/locale.alias is not owned by this package I just renamed the files and re-emerged. Here's a diff of the changes to the files in question: root# diff /usr/lib/charset.alias /usr/lib/charset.alias.old 2c2 < # suitable for operating system 'darwin'. --- > # suitable for operating system 'darwin7.0'. 4c4 < # Packages using this file: minicom --- > # Packages using this file: root# diff /usr/share/locale/locale.alias /usr/share/locale/locale.alias.old 30c30 < # Packages using this file: minicom --- > # Packages using this file: texinfo This was on a clean OSX install, no previous fink, etc.
see you in prefix if you're still interested :)
