[developers] Acetools for MacOS

[Woodley Packard]

Hi Alexandre,

I am using OSX Catalina 10.15.2.  I just downloaded the art 0.1.9 binary and ran it successfully.  On my first attempt I got the following error:

$ ./art -a "~/cdev/ace/ace -g ~/cdev/ace/erg-1214.dat -1" mrs
zcat: can't stat: mrs/item.gz (mrs/item.gz.Z): No such file or directory

I'm not sure if this is a difference with previous versions of OSX, but what's happening here is that art is trying to decompress my zipped profile, and it expected zcat to support .gz extensions, but the zcat program it found didn't.  An easy workaround was to manually decompress the profile before processing it, e.g.:

$ gunzip mrs/*.gz

After that, everything went through without any issues.  I was a little bit surprised to see this, because I had seen it in the past and thought I had made the MacOS binaries use "gzcat" instead of "zcat", but apparently not, at least for this particular release.

Was that the problem you ran into, or was it something more sinister?

Regards,
Woodley


> On Feb 20, 2020, at 1:16 PM, Alexandre Rademaker <arademaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Woodley,
> 
> Any change to have the ace tools for MacOS?
> 
> http://sweaglesw.org/linguistics/acetools/
> 
> 
> In particular, the ART 0.1.9 MacOS binary does not run on Catalina:
> 
> http://sweaglesw.org/linguistics/libtsdb/art.html
> 
> 
> Best,
> Alexandre
>