[MacPorts] #44062: root6: either make it work on 10.6 (or declare it broken)

[MacPorts]

#44062: root6: either make it work on 10.6 (or declare it broken)
----------------------+--------------------------------
  Reporter:  mojca@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal   |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports    |    Version:
Resolution:           |   Keywords:  snowleopard
      Port:  root6    |
----------------------+--------------------------------

Comment (by mojca@…):

 Replying to [comment:21 jonesc@…]:
 > The port file makes X11 the default backend on 10.6. maybe try forcing
 the cocoa backend?

 I manually fixed it at two places for now. This also counts as a bug in
 ROOT and should be fixed (they will probably find it easy to fix).

 I already played with Cocoa. While I was able to fix compiler issues (I
 had to edit the sources at a bunch of places), but it didn't work properly
 at the end (because I simply commented out some functions that I didn't
 know how to fix). I suspect that the changes needed might be minimal for
 someone with some Cocoa background, but I'm not sure if the ROOT team is
 willing to spend any time on that. It was different if Cocoa support was
 written a few years earlier. The problem is that ROOT uses some functions
 that have first been introduced in 10.7. There are very very few of them
 (probably 4 functions at 10-20 locations), but enough to make unmodified
 software "useless".

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44062#comment:22>
MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/>
Ports system for OS X