My wife is working on her Ph.D thesis and I feel completely useless being unable to help her. Anyhow, she had some drawings to be done in xfig, which is not been used since the 15th century. I said, OK my mac has BSD under the hoods so there should be some kind of Xfig available there. There are in fact two different projects for using such UNIX tools with Mac OS X. One is called MacPorts, and the other Fink.

MacPorts was installed on my Mac when I was using Tiger, however we had problems with Xfig so I searched a bit more and found Fink which actually does the same job. Unfortunately Fink does not have a binary distribution for Leopard.

Currently I am installing both of them on my Mac at the same time. I hope one of them will help us run Xfig. For those of you out there having problems with either MacPorts or Xfig during installation just keep in mind to put your Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) installation DVD (or a backup of it) and install XCodeTools.pkg and X11sdk.pkg which are not installed by default. That will solve most of all your problems. Problems not solved with this tip, is unfortunately too complex for me and I can not be of any help. Go ahead and asked the communities and developers.