osxvnc port fails to build

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue May 8 22:46:40 PDT 2007


On May 8, 2007, at 06:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 8, 2007, at 04:38, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
>>> The port should be updated and renamed. We may have to go with  
>>> downloading their disk image and just copying over their existing  
>>> universal binary application, since their web site makes no  
>>> mention of the source being available anymore. If anyone can find  
>>> the source for the current version, please let me know and we'll  
>>> use that instead.
>>
>> We're in some luck; the source is only available via CVS on  
>> Sourceforge (see [1] to browse it on the web), but it is there and  
>> it is tagged.  I haven't tested it yet, but it looks from portfile 
>> (7) and browsing the CVS repository that
>>
>> worksrcdir	OSXvnc
>> cvs.root	:pserver:anonymous at osxvnc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ 
>> osxvnc
>> cvs.tag		2_1
>>
>> should do for fetching the current version and setting the build  
>> directory.  It looks like the old patch will need some tweaking as  
>> well.
>
>> [1] http://osxvnc.cvs.sourceforge.net/osxvnc/
>
> Thanks for finding this. I'll work on updating the osxvnc port to  
> the latest version using this CVS checkout.

FYI: The osxvnc port is now updated to version 2.1. I elected not to  
rename the port at this time. Perhaps I should have, but I've never  
done a rename before and didn't feel like researching it at the moment.





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