[MacPorts] #64655: libsdl2: find some version to use for Tiger and Leopard
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#64655: libsdl2: find some version to use for Tiger and Leopard
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Reporter: barracuda156 | Owner: barracuda156
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version: 2.7.2
Resolution: | Keywords: powerpc leopard
Port: libsdl2 |
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Comment (by kencu):
Using the 10.7 SDK on 10.6 has worked perfectly for years now -- SDL is
written to do that, in the proper Apple way.
However, they recently decided to drop support for 10.6, as they would
inevitably do, and move the bar up. So we pegged libsdl2 at the last
version for 10.6 that looked solid.
Newer versions of SDL than the one we pegged for 10.6 already are highly
unlikely to work properly, even if they miraculously build, because
support was dropped and all the fallbacks and workarounds were being
removed.
You had postulated that perhaps a newer libsdl2 could be made to work
properly on older systems by going through X11 and ignoring the Apple SDK
limitations by not using the Apple APIs. This could possibly work -- last
I heard, you were testing it to see if it did or did not actually
function, as there is no point committing non-functional garbage into
MacPorts port tree.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64655#comment:35>
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