Re: Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?
On thing to remember is Leopard had to be changed to make it fully UNIX certified. So many things could be broken just from that. On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:11 PM, macports-users- request@lists.macosforge.org wrote:
On 24.08.2007, at 09:22, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Aug 23, 2007, at 07:59, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:
On 23.8.2007, at 15.48, Ralf Waldvogel wrote:
I may have a very stupid question: Where do I report build failures for packages on Leopard?
I have trouble building quite a few ports on Mac OS 10.5, which build without failure on 10.4. Do I report directly to the package owner? Question then: How to get the package owner? Or this there a centralised "task force" for porting ports to 10.5, which I will report to?
10.5 is not yet open for public discussion, so it would be best to try package's owner, look for the maintainer in the port ('port info x' gives you the maintainer). If the maintainer is 'openmaintainer' or 'nomaintainer', then you are on your own.
Even if the port has a maintainer, you're probably on your own, as most of us don't have access to Leopard. But if you can tell the maintainer how to fix the build for Leopard, then the maintainer can just take your word for it and apply your patch.
Unfortunately there are quite a few builds broken. Do you know if there is a list or something like that, where to keep the status for 10.5?
Sounds like maybe it's Mac OS X 10.5 that's broken, not the ports. Maybe a future build of Mac OS X 10.5 will not have these problems. To ensure that, you may wish to report a bug to Apple about these excessive problems that 10.5 seems to be causing.
I don't think we're keeping track of 10.5 build status of the ports right now. Well, we're not gathering or tracking that data at all, regardless of platform or OS. We should, somehow, but we don't.
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On Aug 24, 2007, at 13:31, Alex Kac wrote:
Unfortunately there are quite a few builds broken. Do you know if there is a list or something like that, where to keep the status for 10.5?
Sounds like maybe it's Mac OS X 10.5 that's broken, not the ports. Maybe a future build of Mac OS X 10.5 will not have these problems. To ensure that, you may wish to report a bug to Apple about these excessive problems that 10.5 seems to be causing.
I don't think we're keeping track of 10.5 build status of the ports right now. Well, we're not gathering or tracking that data at all, regardless of platform or OS. We should, somehow, but we don't.
On thing to remember is Leopard had to be changed to make it fully UNIX certified. So many things could be broken just from that.
I had no idea this was happening, but there it is: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/unix.html I also don't really know what it means. I guess it means a lot of open-source software breaks? Fun.
Technically, I believe it means anything that runs on Solaris or IBM's UNIX should work without any special configs if they use UNIX APIs only. That is my understanding... On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 13:31, Alex Kac wrote:
Unfortunately there are quite a few builds broken. Do you know if there is a list or something like that, where to keep the status for 10.5?
Sounds like maybe it's Mac OS X 10.5 that's broken, not the ports. Maybe a future build of Mac OS X 10.5 will not have these problems. To ensure that, you may wish to report a bug to Apple about these excessive problems that 10.5 seems to be causing.
I don't think we're keeping track of 10.5 build status of the ports right now. Well, we're not gathering or tracking that data at all, regardless of platform or OS. We should, somehow, but we don't.
On thing to remember is Leopard had to be changed to make it fully UNIX certified. So many things could be broken just from that.
I had no idea this was happening, but there it is:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/unix.html
I also don't really know what it means. I guess it means a lot of open-source software breaks? Fun.
Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. - Microsoft Certified Partner "Patience is the companion of wisdom." --Anonymous
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