Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?

[Alex Kac]

On thing to remember is Leopard had to be changed to make it fully  
UNIX certified. So many things could be broken just from that.

On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:11 PM, macports-users- 
request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:

>> On 24.08.2007, at 09:22, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Unfortunately there are quite a few builds broken.
>> Do you know if there is a list or something like that, where to
>> keep the status for 10.5?
>
> Sounds like maybe it's Mac OS X 10.5 that's broken, not the ports.
> Maybe a future build of Mac OS X 10.5 will not have these problems.
> To ensure that, you may wish to report a bug to Apple about these
> excessive problems that 10.5 seems to be causing.
>
> I don't think we're keeping track of 10.5 build status of the ports
> right now. Well, we're not gathering or tracking that data at all,
> regardless of platform or OS. We should, somehow, but we don't.

Alex Kac - President and Founder
Web Information Solutions, Inc. - Microsoft Certified Partner

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