[MacPorts] #69051: qt5.x on PowerPC: approaches to bypass broken Cocoa

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#69051: qt5.x on PowerPC: approaches to bypass broken Cocoa
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  Reporter:  barracuda156  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports         |    Version:  2.8.1
Resolution:                |   Keywords:  powerpc, leopard, snowleopard
      Port:  qt5-qtbase    |
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Comment (by RJVB):

 I'd start with 1) with an attempt at 2) for features where the generic
 code is more or less dummy code. If that leads to something more or less
 workable you can try to use 3) for the most sorely missing features.

 I've done quite a bit of 1) in my qt5-kde-x11 effort and most of that was
 just figuring out the build system, plus remembering that OS X is more
 akin to BSD than to Linux in many cases.

 Is there still *any* PowerPC-specific code in Qt5, for *n?x OSes running
 on that architecture? If not you'll likely end up with something that's
 pretty slow... You might want to find a recent PPC Linux for your Powermac
 and set up a test environment to see how happy you are with Qt5 apps
 there, before spending a lot of effort!

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