macosx_deployment_target

[Toby Peterson]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2009, at 11:05, Toby Peterson wrote:
>
>> On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>> With the universal_sysroot and universal_target now gone from  
>>> trunk, how is one expected to set macosx_deployment_target?  I  
>>> thought that setting macosx_deployment_target in macports.conf  
>>> would do it, but nope...
>>
>> Basically, you aren't. MacPorts doesn't support building for other  
>> Mac OS X releases... although it is true that universal_target was  
>> being abused to attempt it.
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19875
>
> Ok, so then why are we keeping macosx_deployment_target around at  
> all?  Is there a reason to have this variable clutter up the  
> namespace if it's redundant with macosx_version?

You can set it for an individual port, which could (at least in  
theory) be useful if for some reason the current deployment target  
doesn't work.

- Toby