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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Macos is the UNIX? Post 303040173 by dodona on Thursday 24th of October 2019 11:01:02 AM
Old 10-24-2019
its true that MacOS is more "unix-like' than Linux because of UNIX certification. On the other hand totally unrelated Z/OS, BS2000 and other proprietary mainframe OS'ses also have posix certification. That's it and that's all either.

Under the hood MacOS keeps the user far away from the BSD cellar. The typical macos user runs very proprietary gui apps on very proprietary hardware, and only a small minority installing UNIX related services, libraries, X11, vi, emacs and so on, however that's not part of the MacOS culture, which is more windows a-like restricted, limited, not to say even worser capitalism than M$. Furthermore MacOS hat nothing to do with the classic UNIX approach of free and open, sharing and open community. Just the opposite is true. Running MacOS is like Ricky Rich living on a lonely island.
 

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Module::Build::Platform::MacOS(3pm)			 Perl Programmers Reference Guide		       Module::Build::Platform::MacOS(3pm)

NAME
Module::Build::Platform::MacOS - Builder class for MacOS platforms DESCRIPTION
The sole purpose of this module is to inherit from "Module::Build::Base" and override a few methods. Please see Module::Build for the docs. Overridden Methods new() MacPerl doesn't define $Config{sitelib} or $Config{sitearch} for some reason, but $Config{installsitelib} and $Config{installsitearch} are there. So we copy the install variables to the other location make_executable() On MacOS we set the file type and creator to MacPerl so it will run with a double-click. dispatch() Because there's no easy way to say "./Build test" on MacOS, if dispatch is called with no arguments and no @ARGV a dialog box will pop up asking what action to take and any extra arguments. Default action is "test". ACTION_realclean() Need to unlock the Build program before deleting. AUTHOR
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> SEE ALSO
perl(1), Module::Build(3), ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3) perl v5.18.2 2014-01-06 Module::Build::Platform::MacOS(3pm)
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