[91946] trunk/dports/x11/wine-devel

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Apr 14, 2012, at 3:39, Andrea D'Amore <and.damore at macports.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 21:28,  <jeremyhu at macports.org> wrote:
>> Revision 91946 Author jeremyhu at macports.org Date 2012-04-13 12:28:11 -0700
>> (Fri, 13 Apr 2012)
>> Log Message
>> wine-devel: Tiger build fix
> 
> Is Tiger a supported platform? Is there an explicit set of supported platform?
> 
> I thought Leopard was the least supported platform for 2.x but I
> cannot remember where this idea came from.

Historically, we've supported current and previous OS versions, but we try not to break older versions if we can help it.  In practice, most port maintainers support whatever OS they run on, and usually others try to fill in the gaps when problems occur.  Since not many people live on Tiger any more, it naturally is less well supported. Also Tiger/ppc is probably in worse shape than Tiger/i386 for the same reason.

I recently freed up an old MacBook and decided to clear out my "XXXX doesn't build on Tiger" bug reports because I don't like regressions as a matter of principle, so that's why you may have seen a few such commits from me over the past week or so.

Tiger's development tools are very different than what are on Leopard and newer.  I gave up on using XCode 2.5's toolchain and instead got more modern toolchains building.  I then switched default_compiler (trunk base) to apple-gcc42 with macports ld64 and cctools installed.  With this toolchain and some minor patching along the way, I was able to build all of my ports on Tiger.  If you still have a Tiger box, you might want to try that as your default_compiler.

--Jeremy