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SnakeCoils

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Well, changing the declarations in the patch file (1002) about the OSX version did not change anything, same error during compile. For completeness the manual modification in ScreenSaver.cpp involved an additional change in the two lines as follow:

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 m_okDisp = (IOPMAssertionCreate(kIOPMAssertionTypeNoDisplaySleep, kIOPMAssertionLevelOn, &m_idDisp) == kIOReturnSuccess);
 m_okSys  = (IOPMAssertionCreate(kIOPMAssertionTypeNoIdleSleep,  kIOPMAssertionLevelOn, &m_idSys)  == kIOReturnSuccess);

Otherwise the compiler would complain: for the above fix I have followed the suggestions in the main.log file.
About the patches not applied I noticed that while traces of 0001-0007 are found in the log file, the 1002 (that refers to Screensaver.cpp patch) never went considered during compile, I have tried to copy it in the first list of the Portfile patches (just after the 0007) but it did not worked :) Anyway the program runs great, a bit complicated at first sight but very customizable. Many thanks!
 
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SnakeCoils said:
Otherwise the compiler would complain: for the above fix I have followed the suggestions in the main.log file.
About the patches not applied I noticed that while traces of 0001-0007 are found in the log file, the 1002 (that refers to Screensaver.cpp patch) never went considered during compile
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Thank you, I am being stupid, I put the patch into the wrong section of the port file. It has three different versions, so the patch simply was never applied in your build.

UPD. And it did not apply when you tried to add it, because that part is already been patched in patch 0003. Anyway, I will sort this out. Thanks for testing, it was very helpful.
 
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SnakeCoils said:
Well, changing the declarations in the patch file (1002) about the OSX version did not change anything, same error during compile. For completeness the manual modification in ScreenSaver.cpp involved an additional change in the two lines as follow:

Code: 
 m_okDisp = (IOPMAssertionCreate(kIOPMAssertionTypeNoDisplaySleep, kIOPMAssertionLevelOn, &m_idDisp) == kIOReturnSuccess);
 m_okSys  = (IOPMAssertionCreate(kIOPMAssertionTypeNoIdleSleep,  kIOPMAssertionLevelOn, &m_idSys)  == kIOReturnSuccess);

Otherwise the compiler would complain: for the above fix I have followed the suggestions in the main.log file.
About the patches not applied I noticed that while traces of 0001-0007 are found in the log file, the 1002 (that refers to Screensaver.cpp patch) never went considered during compile, I have tried to copy it in the first list of the Portfile patches (just after the 0007) but it did not worked :) Anyway the program runs great, a bit complicated at first sight but very customizable. Many thanks!
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I have finally rebased the PR with your change incorporated. Hopefully this gonna work now: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23676
 
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Thank you very much, I am going to rebuild QMplay2 as soon as possible on my G4 MDD to confirm.

Update: Just tried to rebuild from your very latest GitHub repository but it failed. Apparently the ScreenSaver.cpp still have some issues in the same two lines but with different results.
Attached you will find the Log files from the build, the first before my tentative correction (just deleted the "WithName" from "IOPMAssertionCreateWithName" string) and the second after the correction, seems to dislike the parenthesis but here my programming knowledge stops :)
 

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Consider trying these out:

lastfm-desktop https://ports.macports.org/port/lastfm-desktop/details (10.4 not supported at the moment, 10.5–10.6 should work)

QMMP, a music player with Qt-based GUI https://ports.macports.org/port/qmmp/details

albafetch, a faster neofetch replacement written in C https://ports.macports.org/port/albafetch/details (on 10A190 you will see a funny error on launch, that is because 10A190 lacks ppc slices in a few SystemProfiler components, but those can be borrowed from 10.5.8).
 
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A quick update: Claws-Mail is confirmed to actually work, at least over IMAP.

After a recent update to 4.2.0 it also looks better.

Anyone looking for an e-Mail client with GUI, please try.
(For CLI nmail should work.)
 
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Brace yourself, MacPorts upgraded OpenSSL to 3.3 for older systems now, and the build takes forever. Like, a lot.
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Interesting. Longer than gcc?

Also, anyone tried compiling Dillo? Haven't tried it yet but I got all of the dependencies succesfully installed from MacPorts.
 
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maître said:
Interesting. Longer than gcc?

Also, anyone tried compiling Dillo? Haven't tried it yet but I got all of the dependencies succesfully installed from MacPorts.
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Not that bad, thankfully, but my point of comparison was 3.1, which was nothing special to build. It looks like 3.3 builds all tests unnecessarily. I will perhaps make a PR to disable that.

Re dillo, I had an impression from what I read that it is pretty useless. We need a browser that will be better than TenFourFox. For some basic stuff Arora should work.
But if you have a build procedure, translating it into a portfile should not be a problem.
 
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I got the latest Deluge working on PPC.

Will need a few fixups and updates in MacPorts, do not try right now, it will not work yet :)
deluge.png
 
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barracuda156 said:
I got the latest Deluge working on PPC.

Will need a few fixups and updates in MacPorts, do not try right now, it will not work yet :)
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In fact 2.1.1 works also.

These should work:
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deluge: switch to python312 and boost181 to match libtorrent-rasterbar, fix dependencies by barracuda156 · Pull Request #24681 · macports/macports-ports

Description libtorrent-rasterbar has been switched to python312 earlier without considering deluge, which uses python311 by default. In addition, it uses a different Boost. Also, on of its Python d...
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py-asn1-modules: update to 0.4.0 by barracuda156 · Pull Request #24679 · macports/macports-ports

Description Should have been updated together, sorry -_- Support for old pythons were dropped in new versions, so add fallbacks. Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 10.6 ...
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py-pyopenssl: use a fallback on legacy systems without Rust by barracuda156 · Pull Request #24658 · macports/macports-ports

Description Use a fallback for systems without Rust. Match py-cryptography for the threshold. Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 10.6 Xcode 3.2 Verification Have you ...
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@barracuda156 @cellularmitosis Men I'm software developer but I can't figure out how to compile most of the things that u accomplish, kudos to you really, I don't have much spare time to mess with powerpc but nowadays development its tight to frameworks and libraries that made all for u, that all those compiling and linking its something that I can't do. It's something that the academy doesn't tech you. You hard work make me jealous in a good way, maybe some day I figure out how to fix and compile all those things. thanks.
 
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Pretty basic app from KDE4, but works. Has some simple RAW processing.

P. S. I was able to build full-blown digikam today, but the app crashes on launch, unfortunately. Maybe fixable.
 
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By the way notice that even though Qt4-based software is not the latest, to put it mildly, in terms of GUI, it links to the current versions of libraries. So you still get modern FFMpeg, modern audio codecs and modern image processing.
 
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