How to build mesos on Mavericks

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I cloned from git: ``` git clone git://git.apache.org/mesos.git ``` and also had done ``` brew install autoconf automake libtool ``` Then trying to follow the "Getting started" at http://mesos.apache.org/gettingstarted/ And specifically : ``` Only if running from source code cloned from git, run ./bootstrap otherwise skip to step 3 ``` So I ran ``` ./bootstrap ``` Here is a trimmed output of the results. I did not see any ERRORS as such but plenty of WARNings. End result exited with 1 and no configure script was generated: ``` autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory 3rdparty/stout to autoreconf autoreconf: Entering directory `3rdparty/stout' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/bin/autoconf --warnings=all autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force --warnings=all configure.ac:10: installing './missing' autoreconf: Leaving directory `3rdparty/stout' autorec…

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The Mesos team updated the "Getting Started" document with instructions on building and running Mesos on Mavericks.

GCC was replaced with Clang on Mavericks, and so you first have to install GCC 4.7+. You can use Homebrew to install it (Note: installing GCC takes a loooong time):

```
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install gcc48
```

This is the gist of getting started on Mavericks:

```
# Make sure you have the right versions of automake and GCC.
# For example:
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.12.6
...

$ aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.12.6
...

$ gcc-4.8 --version
gcc-4.8 (GCC) 4.8.1
...

# Follow bootstrap steps above.

# Configure and build.
$ mkdir build
$ cd build

# The prepending CC and CXX will select custom compilers to build Mesos with.
$ CC=gcc-4.8 CXX=g++-4.8 ../configure
```

How to build mesos on Mavericks

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