Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Aug 24 13:29:21 PDT 2007


On Aug 24, 2007, at 13:31, Alex Kac wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> 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.

I had no idea this was happening, but there it is:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/unix.html

I also don't really know what it means. I guess it means a lot of  
open-source software breaks? Fun.






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