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These are built.

• theli0nheart 13y ago
  I'm not sure recently this came about, but Homebrew can do this via "bottles" (precompiled package binaries). Not all packages are bottled, but a lot of the popular ones are. [1] They also did a Kickstarter a couple weeks back to finance the automation of the compilation process. [2] [1]: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Bottles https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Bottles [2]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebrew/brew-test-bot http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebrew/brew-test-bot
  • No1 13y ago
    MacPorts also installs the most common packages from precompiled binaries. Fink also has the ability (--use-binary-dist). The main difference here is that the entire pkgsrc universe is available as precompiled binaries, which can save you a whole lot of time/CPU cycles. It could also help circumvent the "compiles fine for the package maintainer but not for me" type of errors which are often the most time consuming.