py27_wxpython

[Ulrich Wienands]

Ok, coming back to the original question: why, then, does wxWidgets
not want to build on 10.4 ppc?? ppc is listed as supported
architecture, and the platform darwin 11 {} will be ignored, so what
gives? Anyway I can force this?

Uli


2012/2/9, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
>
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 01:51, Andrea D'Amore wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 06:48, Ulrich Wienands wrote:
>>> 93
>>> 94      platform darwin 11 {
>>> 95               configure.args-append \
>>> 96               --with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk \
>>> 97               --with-macosx-version-min=10.6
>>
>> The platform directive is stating a condition upon which the block is
>> executed.
>> That line doesn't say that darwin 11 is a requirement, it says that if
>> the port is installed on darwin 11 then the following arguments are
>> appended to configuration.
>
> Correct.
>
>> Consider that Xcode 4.x doesn't come with 10.5u SDK, so the portfile
>> is specifying 10.6 SDK.
>
> Actually, it's that wxWidgets doesn't work with the 10.7 SDK. MacPorts would
> usually set the SDK to the current OS version, but in the 10.7 SDK, Apple
> removed QuickDraw methods that wxWidgets uses, so using the 10.7 SDK won't
> work for this version of wxWidgets. Hopefully a future version of wxWidgets
> will no longer rely on deprecated drawing methods and will then be
> compatible with the 10.7 SDK.
>
>