Should I try to upgrade to XCode 4.2 4c199 - Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Dominik Reichardt]

> Am 04.10.2015 um 09:26 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
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>> On Oct 3, 2015, at 1:38 PM, John-Reed Maffeo wrote:
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>> Newbie here. I have used mac ports for many years and never had a reason to write to the list. The few things I use have always worked.
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>> I recently got myself into a pickle (difficult situation) with ffmpeg and tried to reinstall it. I think this issues is being tracked:
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>> Ticket #48938 (new defect)
>> ffmpeg build failure on 10.6
>> Opened 13 days ago
>> Last modified 4 days ago
> 
> On OS X 10.6.8, Xcode 3.2.6 is the recommended version. Xcode 4 for Snow Leopard was never available for free; you had to have a paid developer membership to get a copy. As such, most MacPorts users did not try this configuration, so more problems are likely to be encountered if you use that configuration.
> 
> Mihai attached a patch to that ticket that you could try. I'll try it now on my Snow Leopard system and, assuming it works, I'll commit it.

Not that it matters anymore, but Apple made every Xcode version (including 4) available in the additional downloads of the developer portal.

Dom