Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 23, 2007, at 07:59, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:

> On 23.8.2007, at 15.48, Ralf Waldvogel wrote:
>
>> I may have a very stupid question:  Where do I report build  
>> failures for packages on Leopard?
>>
>> I have trouble building quite a few ports on Mac OS 10.5, which  
>> build without failure on 10.4.
>> Do I report directly to the package owner? Question then: How to  
>> get the package owner?
>> Or this there a centralised "task force" for porting ports to  
>> 10.5, which I will report to?
>
> 10.5 is not yet open for public discussion, so it would be best to  
> try package's owner, look for the maintainer in the port ('port  
> info x' gives you the maintainer). If the maintainer is  
> 'openmaintainer' or 'nomaintainer', then you are on your own.

Even if the port has a maintainer, you're probably on your own, as  
most of us don't have access to Leopard. But if you can tell the  
maintainer how to fix the build for Leopard, then the maintainer can  
just take your word for it and apply your patch.