Reid Priedhorsky

This should also address the usability error described in #1335.

Patricia, thanks for the new issue! We have not previously considered OS X because it doesn't have the namespace system calls we use to run containers. Could you tell us...

OK. Can you explain this use case in more detail? I'm still a little confused because even if you can successfully build images, you won't be able to run them,...

I'll add that there's no fundamental reason that the building-related scripts could not run on MacOS, so if you're interested in writing a patch, we should discuss. It is running...

@tylerjereddy The namespace system calls we need aren't available on Mac, so Charliecloud definitely can't run containers on a Mac. Building containers may be plausible. I'd certainly be open to...

It turns out that we could build images on MacOS (via Docker but not `ch-grow` because it needs `ch-run`, which uses Linux system calls), and all/most of the shell scripts...

@bio-la, thanks for asking. At present a Linux VM is the only way to do Charliecloud on MacOS. The Python and shell parts of Charliecloud should work on Macs, aside...

Many of the “only spaces” crowd are going away, so that will help.

Interesting, thanks for the bug report. Do you know where that file (`/usr/local/share/aclocal/shtool.m4`) comes from? It's not part of Charliecloud and being in `/usr/local` it looks to be a local...

Possibly there is a local install of GNU shtool?