[Radiance-general] Radiance install on Mac OS X (Jaguar)

[John An]

I am currently trying to install Radiance in XDarwin on a Macintosh 
running Mac OSX 10.2.  I am completely new to UNIX, so my question may 
be simplistic.  Please bare with me.  If this question is 
inappropriate, then please let me know, and I will not fill your 
inboxes.

I read Greg Ward's response to Galen Burrell, and tried following the 
direction.

When I try running the ./makeall install script, I always come up with 
errors.
When I try copying the files manually, I also run into problems

I'm trying to install into /usr/local/radiance

With the cp -rp lib /usr/local/radiance/lib/ray command, I get a 
message saying that the file is identical.
With the cp -p src/*.cal /usr/local/radiance/lib/ray command, I get a 
message saying that there was no match.

I'm sure it's my ignorance that's causing the problem.

Again, I'm a complete newbie, so I really don't know what I'm doing, 
but am willing to learn and experiment.

Can you point me to a resource that will help me understand the install 
process?  I understand that my question is really remedial, but I know 
I'll understand better the installation process under UNIX through this 
task of having to install Radiance.


Thanks in advance for your time and patience.



John An