Re: PSPP-BUG: PSPP on Silicon Mac

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Hi Mimmo,

If you use macports or homebrew for MacOS, then pspp is build with more recent 
libraries which might work better with M1. Can you give that a try? 

Friedrich

> Am 05.05.2023 um 14:04 schrieb John Darrington <john@cellform.com>:
> 
> I don't use Mac so I can't give a definitive answer to your question.
> 
> However I do know that many people have used PSPP on the Mac in recent years,
> and whilst there have been some issues I can't recall that anyone has ever
> claimed it to be "very slow", "buggy" or "unusable".  So my guess is that
> the problem must lie with your particular circumstances.
> 
> Having said that, whilst PSPP does work very well on Mac, it is designed to
> work best on GNU/Linux - so if you want the very best performance I would
> advise you to use that instead of Mac.
> 
> So far as I'm aware all the microprocessors manufactured in the last 30
> years are silicon so pspp certainly is compatible with them.
> 
> J'
> 
> On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 11:12:12PM +0200, Mimmo Lanzirotta via Bug-gnu-pspp 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I downloaded PSPP on my MacBook Air M1, but the software doesn't work
>> correctly. Apparently it's not compatible with Silicon processors so it's
>> all very slow and buggy, the menu bar basically is unusable. Have you any
>> kind of solution? Or are you working on a compatible version of the
>> software?
>> 
>> Thank you, and best regards!
> 
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