Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 24, 2007, at 03:18, Ralf Waldvogel 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.