Dear Ali Shaikhsulaiman,
Unfortunately I cannot read the screen shot that accompanied your email. It is small, and when I magnify it, I just see fuzzy letters.
I will give you some suggestions that may help.
Although you mention the version of MacOSX you have (10.10), you don’t mention the version of sac that you have installed.
I have OS X 10.10 installed and I can run sac v 101.6a (the latest version; I have a 64-bit executable). I also tried an older version, v 101.5c, and I could run both 32-bit and 64-bit executables.
I use tcsh rather than bash, so maybe my advice will be wrong.
I suggest you do these things to check your install of sac:
Check that you have a recent version of sac. It does not seem to matter exactly which version, although it should be a recent version.
Run the ‘file’ command with what you think is the sac executable. This will verify that it is actually an executable file and not a directory.
From information in your email I suggest you type the command:
file /usr/local/bin/sac
in a terminal window. This command should tell you: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
There are 3 important parts of this:
1) ‘Mach-O’ is a Mac executable file, if you see something different, you don’t have the sac executable for a mac.
2) ‘executable’ confirms this is an executable file; if /usr/local/bin/sac is a directory, the file command will tell you it is a directory
3) ’64-bit’ and ‘x86_64’ both indicate that this is a 64-bit executable. If you have a 32-bit version of sac, the file command would show: Mach-O executable i386
As I said above, I have no trouble running a 32-bit version of sac on my mac.
Finally, although you say you didn’t observe any action when you type ./sacinit.sh in bash, that is normal. It will not show anything in your terminal window. It sets some environment variables for you. You can verify that it worked by typing
echo $SACHOME
and from your email, I think you should see something like
/usr/local
Other things that you may need to check:
1) do you have Apple’s Xcode installed? If not, go to Apple’s page and search for Xcode. You need an Apple-ID to download it (it is big, several GB in size)
2) do you have Quartz installed? If not, go to
http://xquartz.macosforge.org to get it. It installs in /opt. Also, I had to create a couple of symbolic links to X11:
sudo /opt/X11 /usr/X11R6
sudo /opt/X11 /usr/X11
so that I could run sac on my mac.
I hope some of this helps you figure out what is wrong with your sac install.
Leigh House
On Jul 30, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Ali Shaikhsulaiman <ali92ah<at>me.com> wrote:
Hey!
I am having a problem installing SAC on my mac (OS X Yosemite 10.10). I have tried to run the script (./sacinit.sh) on bash, don’t observe any action… and then tried to check if sac has been installed somehow, however a message shows up "bash: /usr/local/bin/sac: Bad CPU type in executable”..
I am right thinking it is because of the version of my OS? since sac is only possibly valid for upto OS10.9?
*would really like away to be able to install sac with on my mac?
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Appreciate any help!
Thank you.
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