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added the instruction of install Qt4 for macOS Sierra 10.12.4 #1575

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Added instruction into the manual on installing the qt4 on a Mac machine with macOS Sierra 10.12.4

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Very nice! Just a few comments

sudo port install qt4-mac
\end{verbatim}
Then you can follow the Linux user instructions provided previously to download and install dealii parameter-GUI.
Before running \texttt{cmake .}, you many need to either pass the path of \texttt{qt4} and specify the value of variable \texttt{QT\_LIBRARIES} to the directory that contains the libraries of \texttt{qt4}
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you may

@@ -4192,6 +4192,26 @@ \subsubsection{Installing parameter-GUI}
to the directory that contains the parameter-GUI executable (optional).
This will allow \aspect{} to automatically enable the GUI during configuration.
\end{enumerate}
On a mac machine with recent macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Qt development libraries of version 4.x.x at the libraries' official website \url{https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/} may fail to install. Alternatively, you can install \texttt{qt4} through Homebrew (also see instruction here \url{https://github.com/cartr/homebrew-qt4})
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double space before the \url

@@ -4192,6 +4192,26 @@ \subsubsection{Installing parameter-GUI}
to the directory that contains the parameter-GUI executable (optional).
This will allow \aspect{} to automatically enable the GUI during configuration.
\end{enumerate}
On a mac machine with recent macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Qt development libraries of version 4.x.x at the libraries' official website \url{https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/} may fail to install. Alternatively, you can install \texttt{qt4} through Homebrew (also see instruction here \url{https://github.com/cartr/homebrew-qt4})
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please put this into a separate \paragraph like Installing on macOS

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/run-tests

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Comments addressed.

@gassmoeller gassmoeller merged commit 4647cad into geodynamics:master May 11, 2017
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