MacPorts on Lion (common issues, fixes, and workarounds)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Yes, that is what I was eventually going to do, but it requires a lot of synchronous changes and revbumps.  If you have the time to do that, it's certainly a good solution.

--Jeremy

On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:43, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> On 07/20/2011 11:26 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
>> 6) libnotify
>> 
>> The libnotify port is disabled on Lion.  This blocks gnome,
>> firefox-x11, and other ports.  There is a hacky workaround discussed
>> in the Portfile, but it is recommended for *experts only* ... I
>> really can't stress that enough.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For libnotify, why not simply rename it in its Makefile.{am,in} to e.g. libnotify_g and adjust the .pc Libs field to have -lnotify_g instead of -lnotify.
> 
> Clients of the library that use the pkg-config to find it will still find it, but it won't conflict with the systems libnotify.
> 
> Of course there will be some things that will need to be patched, but then s/lnotify/lnotify_g/ should fix them too.
> 
> Peter
>