[Unison-hackers] Unison on El Capitan

[David E. Filip]

Alan,

Thanks for the feedback:

> You can try this one:
> http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/assets/Unison-OS-X-2.48.15.zip
> 
> It has been modified to install the command line tool in the correct
> place.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe 2.48 will work with my CentOS 6 Linux servers, since the latest version in the yum repository is 2.40.  I know that mixing and matching different Unison versions usually doesn’t work.

> The cltool binary is small because all it does is ask the Finder about
> where the Unison app is, and start is. What you could do is copy cltool
> as /usr/local/bin/unison.


OK, if I copy that from one of my Mavericks systems to /usr/local/bin on El Capitan, should that also work?  I know that /usr/bin/unison on my Mavericks systems is much larger.

Thanks,

Dave.

On Dec 15, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 2015-12-15 00:18, "David E. Filip" <dfilip at colornet.com> writes:
> 
>> Dear Unison Hackers,
>> 
>> Can someone please advise how to install Unison command line on OS
>> X 10.11 / El Capitan?
> 
> You can try this one:
> http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/assets/Unison-OS-X-2.48.15.zip
> 
> It has been modified to install the command line tool in the correct
> place.
> 
>> So the question is which file? Copying Unison.app/Contents/MacOS/Unison to
>> /usr/local/bin/unison does not work (I get an error trying to execute it). And
>> it looks like cltool is too small and the wrong file. And neither one match
>> the size of /usr/bin/unison installed on Mavericks.
> 
> The cltool binary is small because all it does is ask the Finder about
> where the Unison app is, and start is. What you could do is copy cltool
> as /usr/local/bin/unison.
> 
> The simplest approach may be to recompile the command line version of
> unison. It's available in homebrew, for instance:
> 
> % brew info unison
> unison: stable 2.48.3 (bottled)
> Unison file synchronizer
> https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> Not installed
> From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/unison.rb
> ==> Dependencies
> Build: ocaml ✔
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Alan
> 
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