MacPorts 1.6 still supports OS X 10.3 Panther?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 29, 2007, at 09:12, Chris Janton wrote:

> On 2007-12-29 , at 05:16 , Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, we don't seem to have too many people with Panther  
>> boxes
>> who are able to help us test on that platform.  If you, or indeed  
>> anybody
>> else, would like to help me and see if they can reproduce the runtime
>> error I describe, we'll be happy to post how to do so.
>
> I would be glad to help figure things out for Panther. I don't  
> expect to be upgrading that OS for some time (long) so having a  
> working, viable MacPorts is important to me.


Probably what we should do first is determine the specific commit /  
revision / changeset that broke the build on Panther. I don't think  
we've established that yet. My wild guess was revision 29498. To test  
whether that's the culprit, check out trunk at r29497 and build it on  
Panther. If it builds, then check out trunk at r29498 and build it.  
If it fails, then r29498 broke the build, and we can further analyze  
the changes made in that revision.

If r29497 already doesn't build, then go further back through the  
revisions. Try a binary search pattern of revisions between r29497  
and r27897 (which is when the 1.5.2 tag was created) to try to find  
the one revision that breaks the build. Or, if r29498 still builds,  
then continue forward through the revisions. Binary search between  
r29498 and r32094 (which is when the 1.6.0 tag was created).