How to actually build bitcoin on Mac OSX 10.9.1

First of all, if you have Macports, do yourself a favor and get rid of it. Then make sure you have Homebrew installed and all the packages installed by it up to date. 1. Let’s install all the dependencies for Bitcoin hacking. brew install autoconf automake berkeley-db4 boost miniupnpc openssl pkg-config protobuf qt libtool 2. […]

building cgminer from source on OSX

so you cloned the cgminer repo from github to build on your OSX machine and you get this bullshit error $ ./autogen.sh readlink: illegal option — f usage: readlink [-n] [file …] usage: dirname path touch: /ltmain.sh: Permission denied Use of chdir(”) or chdir(undef) as chdir() is deprecated at /usr/local/bin/autoreconf line 670. Configuring… ./autogen.sh: line […]

Mac OSX Terminal too slow to open?

Try this: rm ~/.fonts.cache-1 Open a new Terminal, it should open pretty fast after that.