opscode-cookbooks/build-essential — pull request #2 by reset (2012-03-30 05:41:09+00:00)
Title: COOK-1149 add support for OSX to build-essential

The build-essential cookbook is described to:
"Installs C compiler and build tools on Linux"

OSX does not come with a built in way to compile C software from source. Since the build-essential cookbook's job is to install the requirements for compiling C software from source, we should expand build-essential to also work on OSX and change it's description to:
"Installs packages required for compiling C software from source."