title: Installing Kaldi on a mac
body: <p>While trying to install the <a href="http://kaldi.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow">kaldi asr</a> toolkit on my mac I always stumble over some issues.
  (OS: 10.8.4, xCode and command-line tools are installed)</p>
  
  <p>My approach was pretty much as recommended in the kaldi tutorial:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>checking out the repository via svn (I've tried both the trunk and the stable version)</li>
  <li>in the tools directory running $ make or $ ./install.sh depending on on what the installation instructions said in the specific version 
  (I also tried the ./install_atlas.sh approach)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Step 2 seems to work for the non-optional libraries except for openfst for some reason...
  To get openfst to work I installed it via homebrew (version 1.3.3), I think kaldi by default would install version 1.2.10 ... is this a problem?</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, assuming that kaldi can work with this openfst as well, I tried to run configure in the src directory like $ cd ../src; ./configure; ... but the configuration command always returns 'You must run "configure" from the src/ directory.'</p>
  
  <p>So has anybody an idea what's the problem about the configuration or my total installation approach?</p>