[MacPorts] #64439: vlc fails to build on 10.5.8

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#64439: vlc fails to build on 10.5.8
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  Reporter:  barracuda156  |      Owner:  RJVB
      Type:  defect        |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports         |    Version:  2.7.1
Resolution:                |   Keywords:  PowerPC, Leopard
      Port:  vlc           |
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Comment (by RJVB):

 My reply-per-email seems to have missed a connection somewhere, so let me
 just copy it here too...

 Older OS versions are supposed to use port:VLC2 and as far as I know there
 must be a binary image of the default variant configuration.

 I don't know if VLC 2.2.8 still builds on PPC; apparently 2.1.0 and newer
 only support 64 bits (and Snow Leopard or up) at least as far as the GUI
 plugin is concerned. You'd have to try building it on PPC.

 If you look at the Portfile you will maybe understand why I dropped my
 efforts to keep trying to build the code after 3.0.11 or so. There are too
 many patchfiles already. While it would not be impossible to manage 2
 versions of those where needed to support building an older VLC 2.x on PPC
 I am frankly not interested in trying to implement that.

 Someone motivated enough could go through the git history of port:VLC to
 find the latest version that built on PPC. But be aware that the update to
 2.1.0 was #4b132a0b03a3d6ec545a084fd3be1bb63d4418a9 in Sept. 2013, long
 before I was named maintainer, and that building such old code against the
 current versions of its dependencies (FFMpeg in particular) can be a
 daunting task.

 Or alternatively, somebody could give port:VLC2 a conditional section that
 works like port:VLC now does. Adding such a section isn't very hard (take
 a look at my personal copy of port:VLC in my macstrop repo for how to add
 such a section); what you do in it ... I'd rather not know :). From what I
 can tell Videolan still provide the x86_64, i386 and PPC DMGs for VLC
 2.0.9 which is better than I feared it might be.

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