Macports development for PowerPC (10.4, 10.5, 10.6): [unofficial] invitation to cooperate

[barracuda156]

this is impressive. any chance the gui version can be compiled? gtk2 and 3 are broke on powerpc if i recall

Both versions of GTK work fine. What you may need to do is wipe out Apple X11 from the system and use Macports one. (Reverse might be possible, but you are likely to have some libs missing, and why use an older thing anyway.)
Having both produces nasty obscure bugs which no one recognizes, and breaks X server. Avoid it.

Emacs should be from this: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23381
Use emacs-devel. Non-devel may or may not build.
Also pick this:

tree-sitter-cpp: require C11 to fix build on old systems by barracuda156 · Pull Request #23369 · macports/macports-ports

Description @amake Please take a look. Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 10.6 Xcode 3.2 Verification Have you followed our Commit Message Guidelines? squashed and m...

github.com

I had no time to try X11/GTK variants here. In principle they should build.
JIT support at the moment does not (both ppc and i386, though for different reasons).

P. S. I was thinking GTK are broken myself, until I finally decided to spend 5 minutes to clean the mess. Everything works beautifully now. (Well, I won’t say every X11 app works perfectly: for multimedia Qt4 is better, but GTK apps do work fine.
Amule, Nicotine+, Transmission, Gnumeric, Glade, GTK-Gnutella, Claws-Mail, pan2, you name it. I had some glitches with Gimp GUI and Rawstudio though.)

 

[ReginaldB223]

Both versions of GTK work fine. What you may need to do is wipe out Apple X11 from the system and use Macports one. (Reverse might be possible, but you are likely to have some libs missing, and why use an older thing anyway.)
Having both produces nasty obscure bugs which no one recognizes, and breaks X server. Avoid it.

Emacs should be from this: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23381
Use emacs-devel. Non-devel may or may not build.
Also pick this:

tree-sitter-cpp: require C11 to fix build on old systems by barracuda156 · Pull Request #23369 · macports/macports-ports

Description @amake Please take a look. Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 10.6 Xcode 3.2 Verification Have you followed our Commit Message Guidelines? squashed and m...

github.com

I had no time to try X11/GTK variants here. In principle they should build.
JIT support at the moment does not (both ppc and i386, though for different reasons).

P. S. I was thinking GTK are broken myself, until I finally decided to spend 5 minutes to clean the mess. Everything works beautifully now. (Well, I won’t say every X11 app works perfectly: for multimedia Qt4 is better, but GTK apps do work fine.
Amule, Nicotine+, Transmission, Gnumeric, Glade, GTK-Gnutella, Claws-Mail, pan2, you name it. I had some glitches with Gimp GUI and Rawstudio though.)

do you have a quick rundown on how exactly I can do this? wiping out apple x11 in favor of hand built and building emacs gui?

 

[barracuda156]

do you have a quick rundown on how exactly I can do this? wiping out apple x11 in favor of hand built and building emacs gui?

I advise to follow this sequence:

1. Make sure you are able to install `xorg-server-legacy` or `xorg-sever-1.8`.
If you are on 10.6 ppc, add this: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/8cf1a5a22d5df57663cacb64928a3c106acdd12e

2. Provided step 1 works normally, wipe out Apple and XQuartz X11:

XQuartz - Mailing List FAQs

www.xquartz.org

Reboot.

This should fix X11 and GTK stuff.

Build `emacs-devel` from the PR referred. (Non-devel has not been tested, but may work too.)

 

[ReginaldB223]

I advise to follow this sequence:

1. Make sure you are able to install `xorg-server-legacy` or `xorg-sever-1.8`.
If you are on 10.6 ppc, add this: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/8cf1a5a22d5df57663cacb64928a3c106acdd12e

2. Provided step 1 works normally, wipe out Apple and XQuartz X11:

XQuartz - Mailing List FAQs

www.xquartz.org

Reboot.

This should fix X11 and GTK stuff.

Build `emacs-devel` from the PR referred. (Non-devel has not been tested, but may work too.)

oh i thought this was leopard but u are on 10.6 oops

 

[barracuda156]

oh i thought this was leopard but u are on 10.6 oops

Well, it should work on Leopard as well, I just cannot check that at the moment.

UPD. Fix for emacs has been merged, so should be available soon without manual trickery. Please try installing and if something fails, let me know. We will fix that

 

[Tankerthebuberz]

I'm working on something that will allow users to install MacPorts and a devel metapackage so users don't have to build gcc, ninja, cmake, etc. An initial install and first compile using macports....well lets just say my friend at the bottom here can say it better then I can....its like if Forrest Gump never got off that bench in the beginning of the movie.... in other words sloww This can make compiling on PPC a pain in the rear. I also have a small update on PaleMoon and a little more success as I have it fully up and it displays the Google homepage before quitting completely where as it use to not even open...its a library dependency issue but I am so close. Once I am able to get it working, if others have programming skills, I would also like to start back porting from Firefox upstream, at least to pull it up to the current patch set(palemoon does a majoity of backporting but thery cherry pick what to backport and id like to keep it as close to currant esr as we can)... oh, and has anyone been able to compile Claws Mail? I tried it yesterday and it succeeded in building but failed to open once it's packaged. If anyone has Claws Mail compiled, could you please package it and and its dependencies and attach it here? I dont think its my setup but I wanna isolate why its doing it if others have had success once its packaged.... Thanks!!!

 

[doctor_dog]

An initial install and first compile using macports....well lets just say my friend at the bottom here can say it better then I can....its like if Forrest Gump never got off that bench in the beginning of the movie.... in other words sloww

If you are on Leopard, I have done this heavy lifting for you already. Since unfortunately Macports own build system doesn't build on PPC anymore, I set up a dedicated binary archive so you can just grab most of what you need natively within Macports with a few tweaks to your config files. You can grab any of the modern gcc's, python and perl libraries, and bunch of random stuff. You can see all the available packages here.

 

[barracuda156]

I'm working on something that will allow users to install MacPorts and a devel metapackage so users don't have to build gcc, ninja, cmake, etc. An initial install and first compile using macports....well lets just say my friend at the bottom here can say it better then I can....its like if Forrest Gump never got off that bench in the beginning of the movie.... in other words sloww This can make compiling on PPC a pain in the rear. I also have a small update on PaleMoon and a little more success as I have it fully up and it displays the Google homepage before quitting completely where as it use to not even open...its a library dependency issue but I am so close. Once I am able to get it working, if others have programming skills, I would also like to start back porting from Firefox upstream, at least to pull it up to the current patch set(palemoon does a majoity of backporting but thery cherry pick what to backport and id like to keep it as close to currant esr as we can)... oh, and has anyone been able to compile Claws Mail? I tried it yesterday and it succeeded in building but failed to open once it's packaged. If anyone has Claws Mail compiled, could you please package it and and its dependencies and attach it here? I dont think its my setup but I wanna isolate why its doing it if others have had success once its packaged.... Thanks!!!

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Re Claws-Mail: I have just updated it few days back and it should build:

claws-mail: non-functional: portfile clean-up · macports/macports-ports@17b9e33

The MacPorts ports tree. Contribute to macports/macports-ports development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

(Ignore “non-functional” in commit title, this is a second one, previous one updates and fixes the build.)

P. S. You may need to wipe out Apple/XQuatz X11 and install Macports xorg-xserver-legacy for X11/GTK apps to work.

 

[old_printer]

I attempted to build emacs-app and stumbled across a few ports that failed to build. The first was libpixman of which Kencu's patch allows successful building of, and the other is pcre2.

 

[barracuda156]

I attempted to build emacs-app and stumbled across a few ports that failed to build. The first was libpixman of which Kencu's patch allows successful building of, and the other is pcre2.

What’s up with pcre2? Builds fine with no hacks for ppc for me, I think.
(It may be broken badly on i386, but issue there is irrelevant for ppc.)

P. S. The -app version failed to build for me btw, though I didn’t bother attempting to fix it.
emacs-devel +x11 +gtk builds fine on ppc.

 

[old_printer]

What’s up with pcre2? Builds fine with no hacks for ppc for me, I think.
(It may be broken badly on i386, but issue there is irrelevant for ppc.)

P. S. The -app version failed to build for me btw, though I didn’t bother attempting to fix it.
emacs-devel +x11 +gtk builds fine on ppc.

It seems there's a checksum mismatch for the tarball?

$ sudo port install pcre2
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for pcre2
--->  Fetching archive for pcre2
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/pcre2
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from http://ywg.ca.packages.macports.org/mirror/macports/packages/pcre2
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from http://mirror.fcix.net/macports/packages/pcre2
--->  Verifying checksums for pcre2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha256) mismatch for pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (size) mismatch for pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Error: Failed to checksum pcre2: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_pcre/pcre2/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there
is a bug.
Error: Processing of port pcre2 failed

Here is the main.log: https://okturing.com/src/19232/body

 

[barracuda156]

It seems there's a checksum mismatch for the tarball?

$ sudo port install pcre2
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for pcre2
--->  Fetching archive for pcre2
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/pcre2
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from http://ywg.ca.packages.macports.org/mirror/macports/packages/pcre2
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from http://mirror.fcix.net/macports/packages/pcre2
--->  Verifying checksums for pcre2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha256) mismatch for pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (size) mismatch for pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Error: Failed to checksum pcre2: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_pcre/pcre2/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there
is a bug.
Error: Processing of port pcre2 failed

Here is the main.log: https://okturing.com/src/19232/body

Looks like you downloaded html.

Checksums work for me:

~ % sudo port -v extract pcre2
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for pcre2.
--->  Fetching distfiles for pcre2
--->  pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 does not exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/pcre
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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100   416  100   416    0     0   3753      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3781
  0   154    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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100   138  100   138    0     0    471      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   472
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://versaweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://netactuate.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://pilotfiber.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://newcontinuum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://gigenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://deac-ams.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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--->  Verifying checksums for pcre2
--->  Checksumming pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
--->  Extracting pcre2
--->  Extracting pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2
Executing:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_pcre/pcre2/work" && /opt/local/bin/lbzip2 -dc '/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/pcre/pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2' | /usr/bin/tar -xf -

Could you try deleting the source (sudo port clean --all pcre2) and fetching again?

 

[old_printer]

Looks like you downloaded html.

Checksums work for me:

~ % sudo port -v extract pcre2
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for pcre2.
--->  Fetching distfiles for pcre2
--->  pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 does not exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/pcre
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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100   416  100   416    0     0   3753      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3781
  0   154    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch pcre2-10.43.tar.bz2 from http://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.43
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Could you try deleting the source (sudo port clean --all pcre2) and fetching again?

I've now got a successful build of pcre2 with your help @barracuda156, thanks.

 

[barracuda156]

I got VLC 3.0.20 built

Kind of. Audio output does not work at the moment, something with Pulse, but video works. Oddly, yeah.

 

[barracuda156]

I got VLC 3.0.20 built

Kind of. Audio output does not work at the moment, something with Pulse, but video works. Oddly, yeah.

UPD. Sound is fixed in VLC3 now.

Not via PulseAudio, that one is still broken on its own (and not just on ppc in fact), but I have fixed CoreAudio module.

 

[old_printer]

If anyone running emacs is having problems contacting melpa.org with a hangup running package-refresh-contents you can add (setq package-check-signature nil) to init.el which seems to have fixed the issue for me.

 

[barracuda156]

I got a Discord client built and running on my PowerMac.

No idea if we had any already, but anyway, we gonna have an extra one.

 

[old_printer]

I got a Discord client built and running on my PowerMac.

No idea if we had any already, but anyway, we gonna have an extra one.

It would be nice to have an irc or discord dedicated to collaborating and working on these powerpc macports, or just powerpc mac chat in general. A live extension to this subforum of sorts. Is this something we already have?

 

[doctor_dog]

I got a Discord client built and running on my PowerMac.

No idea if we had any already, but anyway, we gonna have an extra one.

Sweet! I have been using dosdude1's Discord Lite, which one did you get to run?

 

[doctor_dog]

It would be nice to have an irc or discord dedicated to collaborating and working on these powerpc macports, or just powerpc mac chat in general. A live extension to this subforum of sorts. Is this something we already have?

I've wondered the same thing myself. AFAIK the answer is "no". I'm down to start one though if there aren't any. Too bad Discord missed the memo of having searchable channels, score one for IRC (I say that there probably is some way to search all of Discord, who knows).

 

[barracuda156]

Sweet! I have been using dosdude1's Discord Lite, which one did you get to run?

abaddon https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon

 

[Yumiko Noua]

abaddon https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon

on macOSX tiger or leopard?

 

[barracuda156]

on macOSX tiger or leopard?

Well, my main system is 10.6 ppc, but normally if something builds there, 10.5 is also good.
(10.5 _is_ maintained, so if something does not work, please open a ticket or complain here. It will be addressed.)

10.4 is a pain to build for, and I honestly see no point in maintaining it. However, I have Macports setup on 10.4 as well (rarely updated), so if anyone intends to actually use this port on 10.4, I can try it.
Let me sort out the portfile (I have abaddon working locally, but still need to modify some logic in portfile), and I can give it a try on Tiger.

 

[Yumiko Noua]

Well, my main system is 10.6 ppc, but normally if something builds there, 10.5 is also good.
(10.5 _is_ maintained, so if something does not work, please open a ticket or complain here. It will be addressed.)

10.4 is a pain to build for, and I honestly see no point in maintaining it. However, I have Macports setup on 10.4 as well (rarely updated), so if anyone intends to actually use this port on 10.4, I can try it.
Let me sort out the portfile (I have abaddon working locally, but still need to modify some logic in portfile), and I can give it a try on Tiger.

oh, understood thanks.
it's because I have a iMac g3 and it would be cool to use abaddon on tiger, openbsd stink.
thanks in advance if Can you do it

 

[old_printer]

Sincerely @barracuda156, thank you for all of the work you do on MacPorts. I see the work you are putting in, and for those of us who use these old machines as a daily driver for both work and hobby we greatly appreciate the time you dedicate.