Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?

[Alex Kac]

Technically, I believe it means anything that runs on Solaris or  
IBM's UNIX should work without any special configs if they use UNIX  
APIs only. That is my understanding...



On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Aug 24, 2007, at 13:31, Alex Kac wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> 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.
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> I had no idea this was happening, but there it is:
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> http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/unix.html
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> 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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