10.6 Snow Leopard PowerPC Development

[Jazzzny]

The Darwinbuild backend which used to be hosted on http://src.macosforge.org/Roots/ was completely nuked a few years ago. Without this fileserver, Darwinbuild can't download anything. I've had some luck switching it to point to the Archive.org URL, but the file archive is incomplete there so a lot of projects still don't build.

 

[barracuda156]

The Darwinbuild backend which used to be hosted on http://src.macosforge.org/Roots/ was completely nuked a few years ago. Without this fileserver, Darwinbuild can't download anything. I've had some luck switching it to point to the Archive.org URL, but the file archive is incomplete there so a lot of projects still don't build.

I have moved sources to macos-powerpc.org/Projects, and here is the port:

darwinbuild: fix the build · barracuda156/powerpc-ports@71bc5f7

Fork of MacPorts ports for macOS PowerPC. Contribute to barracuda156/powerpc-ports development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

1. On 10.6.8 drop the last patch (10a190 hack).
2. `0004-darwinbuild.in-fix-for-renamed-sources-from-Apple-re.patch` fixes extract, but not sure it is enough. Problem: Apple renamed sources in a retarded way, `${name}-${name}-${version}`, while Darwinbuild expects `${name}-${version}`.
3. As of now, it fails to build roots both on powerpc natively and in 10.6.8 x86_64, with a bunch of errors:

xcodebuild: 'relpath' not found
/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild fails with 512 - Unknown error: 512
make[5]: execvp: /Users/svacchanda/10A432/BuildRoot/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-xnu-1456.1.26: Permission denied

I do not know what that means, please tell us if you know. But it seems the app is functional, just something in the setup is not right.

P. S. Build with `-nochroot`, since we do not yet have roots with ppc included.

 

[ChrisCharman]

I have moved sources to macos-powerpc.org/Projects, and here is the port:

darwinbuild: fix the build · barracuda156/powerpc-ports@71bc5f7

Fork of MacPorts ports for macOS PowerPC. Contribute to barracuda156/powerpc-ports development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

1. On 10.6.8 drop the last patch (10a190 hack).
2. `0004-darwinbuild.in-fix-for-renamed-sources-from-Apple-re.patch` fixes extrat, but not sure it is enough. Problem: Apple renamed sources in a retarded way, `${name}-${name}-@{version}`, while Darwinbuild expects `${name}-@{version}`.
3. As of now, it fails to build roots both on powerpc natively and in 10.6.8 x86_64, with a bunch of errors:

xcodebuild: 'relpath' not found
/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild fails with 512 - Unknown error: 512
make[5]: execvp: /Users/svacchanda/10A432/BuildRoot/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-xnu-1456.1.26: Permission denied

I do not know what that means, please tell us if you know. But it seems the app is functional, just something in the setup is not right.

P. S. Build with `-nochroot`, since we do not yet have roots with ppc included.

Relpath is in bootstrap commands source tarball @barracuda156