Apple’s released a pretty useful document on their feelings regarding the useage and development of common UNIX utilities, specifically, bringing them over to OS X.

There are links to support mailing lists, information regarding headers, common frameworks, the issues with PPC’s MSB (Reverse-endian to Intel hardware), threading, and a whole lot of other stuff!

This is a MUST READ for you geekaroos who want your toys – it’s current as of July 30th, 2003: Technote 2071.

I think my favorite part thus far is an extension to GCC’s command line:

-Wmost This is equivalent to -Wall -Wno-parentheses.

Note that the MacOS X: System Overview (updated documentation) is available here, as well. Fink’s porting document, (here), is also quite useful for quick little shims and notes to the seasoned developer – keep in mind that it was written for 10.0.x – many problems are no longer valid for 10.2.x!