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MacPorts for 10.6 PowerPC with pre-built ports [unofficial]: testing welcomed

Leaving this here for reference, I will change the installer accordingly:

/usr/bin/make in 10.6.8 is a symlink to /usr/bin/gnumake, and some software explicitly asks for gnumake. So my sl-make should be changed to install the original binary as gnumake plus a symlink.

To fix it manually right now (assuming you have installed make via `sl-make` pkg):
Code: 
sudo rm /usr/bin/gnumake
sudo mv /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gnumake
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gnumake /usr/bin/make
 
I did install bootstrap-git, port -v sync and tried to install org-xserver-legacy.
 

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while installing fast fetch . . . . many bugs on my machine .. . .
 

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saxfun said:
I did install bootstrap-git, port -v sync and tried to install org-xserver-legacy.
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If you simply change revision from 3 to 4, you can install pre-built version. No need to bother about what is failing in revision 3, it is obsolete. I will update this soon. Been busy with other stuff.
 
saxfun said:
while installing fast fetch . . . . many bugs on my machine .. . .
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Thank you, I will check if something was missed. (Until recently I used two repos, and that unsurprisingly led to some omissions, when I was sure the fix was done, but it was committed elsewhere.)

P. S. But why don’t you install pre-built for now?
 
i didnt change anything, I wanted to use mostly your prebuilt ports. I don't know why port is fetching the code.
 
saxfun said:
i didnt change anything, I wanted to use mostly your prebuilt ports. I don't know why port is fetching the code.
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Could you say which Xcode are you using presently?

I cannot reproduce a failure with `fastfetch` on my machine, I also do not see in your log any attempt to install it from pre-built package, since it just starts to fetch source tarball. This should not be happening by default, AFAIU; if a required version is missing or connection fails, that should be reflected in the log.
So with this I can only suggest trying `sudo port -v -b install fastfetch` and then paste the output here, if that fails.

xorg-server-legacy builds fine for me, but this is my mistake, I did not update the portfile. Will do that now.
 
barracuda156 said:
Could you say which Xcode are you using presently?

I cannot reproduce a failure with `fastfetch` on my machine, I also do not see in your log any attempt to install it from pre-built package, since it just starts to fetch source tarball. This should not be happening by default, AFAIU; if a required version is missing or connection fails, that should be reflected in the log.
So with this I can only suggest trying `sudo port -v -b install fastfetch` and then paste the output here, if that fails.

xorg-server-legacy builds fine for me, but this is my mistake, I did not update the portfile. Will do that now.
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I will still look into the code which fails for you with fastfetch, since regardless of other aspects, this must have an explanation. One possible issue which I can think of is differences between 10.6.8 images (there are some, though I am not sure if relevant for this).

Sources are updated, hopefully next sync picks them up. I will reboot into another system and see if I can reproduce either error.
 
@saxfun Ok, I was able to reproduce the behavior of building from source (looks like two ports, jasper and fastfetch), but no failure, it builds and works fine.

I am not sure why at the moment, since versions in portfiles and archive match (and I have no local ports on this system, only what gets fetched).
 
@saxfun Mystery solved, it is OpenGL framework versioning bug (see development thread), which has been fixed now, but I had some ports built against the wrong version earlier.
I will upload rebuilt packages for jasper and fastfetch. It will work correctly then.

I.e. they were installing pre-built first, but MacPorts detected them as broken due to OpenGL mismatch, so began rebuilding.
 
saxfun said:
i didnt change anything, I wanted to use mostly your prebuilt ports. I don't know why port is fetching the code.
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I have rebuilt three ports, updated sources and also fixed an annoying old bug with quartz-vm port.

Please resync and try installing pre-built versions. Hopefully it works.
And thanks for picking this!
 
saxfun said:
Thanks für your WORK, that did the trick!

Next I'll try some ports like gimp3-devel, abiword, qmplay2 etc. :)
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qmplay2 is somewhat tested being installed this way, since I used it to verify that installation is functional.

Remember, it is advisable to install qt4-mac-devel, not the regular qt4-mac, though both should work.

There could be some instances of OpenGL issue with other ports, but if there are, they are likely very few. Eventually as ports get updated, this problem will go. In the worst case, rebuilding locally is not a big deal, unless we talk about OpenJDK or VTK.

abiword-x11 is available and should work. I have no idea about gimp3. Never tried to build it or otherwise it failed and I never bothered fixing it.

X server-using apps may build in a wrong way or fail to launch if the OS has X11 libs in /usr. Those must be removed in order for MacPorts stuff to work correctly.
 
saxfun said:
Abiword, Gnuneric and Gimp2.10 installed fine.
Gimp3-devel threw errors. Gave up on this.
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Anything which is not present in either /packages or /packages_legacy on macos-powerpc.org is of unknown status or fails to build (if have been tried). So re gimp3 no idea at the moment.

If something else fails, please let me know, it is a helpful information.
 
If anyone noticed any issues with the current version, please let me know.

Otherwise I consider it release-ready, and will make an update in a day or two with that.
 
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