[MacPorts] #61311: at-spi2-core failed when installing pidgin - powerpc - tiger

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#61311: at-spi2-core failed when installing pidgin - powerpc - tiger
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  Reporter:  stevenptimms  |      Owner:  dbevans
      Type:  defect        |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports         |    Version:  2.6.3
Resolution:                |   Keywords:  tiger
      Port:  at-spi2-core  |
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Comment (by kencu):

 Tiger is starting to struggle with current open-source software releases.
 It can use a quite new compiler, and on PowerPC you have currently gcc7
 and below for use. The linker underpinnings are not too great though, and
 most specifically, it does not support @rpath usage, which is becoming
 more prevalent. The only real build system that really chokes at the
 moment though is meson.

 it is fairly common to find an update to a piece of software that does not
 build. Often, with some effort, these can be fixed. People come and go who
 are interested in such things, but mostly it's been Peter and I who have
 been around here doing the Tiger fixes, with some help from Fred and
 @dglessus from time to time.

 You need to be fairly facile with MacPorts to make a go it. You need to
 know how to hold back a port update when an upgrade fails, using your own
 local repository. You need to know how to run a rev-upgrade and let it fix
 things, and when to stop it from fixing something. And you need to know
 when the problem you're seeing is from MacPorts, the port update, or
 something you did.

 And you need to be thick-skinned enough to occasionally get that wrong,
 and have somebody pound on you for wasting their precious time --
 guaranteed, that will happen too.

 So if that works for you, welcome to the mix, and we appreciate having you
 around.

 For a start, look in the MacPorts guide, find the section on setting up a
 local repository, and set yourself up an empty one. Then clone my github
 TigerPorts repo perhaps, and copy in the meson port from there, and
 uninstall the meson you have, and install the one I fixed. Maybe after
 that, copy over the ati-* ports as well, and see if they install for you.

 And if NONE of what I just said makes any sense to you at all -- maybe
 better think twice about running Tiger and MacPorts until it does make
 sense. You can upgrade your PowerPC system to Leopard perhaps and that is
 an order of magnitude easier to use with current software (supports
 @rpath, and much more). Intel systems can USUALLY upgrade to SnowLeopard,
 which is very useful still, or Lion, which is really quite good still.

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