Building gnucash in native Quartz for macOS Mojave...?

[Carlo Tambuatco]

> On Oct 28, 2018, at 4:47 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Oct 27, 2018, at 19:46, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
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>> I’ve got gnucash installed at the moment, but it’s the x11 build not the native quartz build.
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>> I’ve been thinking about following the instructions detailed here:
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>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail
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>> for building the native quartz version of gnucash. 
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>> The instructions say that I also need to install x11-free versions of dbus and cairo. Basically the 
>> instructions say if I don’t have x11-free versions of these ports, I should alter my variants.conf 
>> file to include:
>> +no_static
>> +no_x11
>> -x11
>> +quartz
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>> Then install gnucash and its dependencies including x11-free versions of dbus and cairo. 
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>> But then I was thinking when I migrate over to Mojave, and I have to reinstall everything anyway, I 
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>> could alter my variants.conf file then follow the migration steps on macports.org and then x11-free 
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>> versions of gnucash dependencies will be installed as well as gnucash being build for native quartz…
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>> right? Theoretically?
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>> Basically, I’m asking if altering the variants.conf file as outlined in the instructions then migrating 
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>> over to Mojave per the steps on macports.org will result in a native quartz build of gnucash without 
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>> breaking anything I’ve got installed. 
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>> Heck, I’ll even include a full list of my installed ports just to ask if following these 
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>> steps will break anything that you might know of… (it’s a bit long)
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>> I see a lot of ‘arch=x86_64’ in that list, so those ports should not cause problems in Mojave, right?
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>> Thanks in advance.
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>> <myports.txt.zip>
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> If you want to switch from X11 to Quartz, you should uninstall and reinstall ports, so doing so at migration time is ideal.
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> There are many occurrences of the string "+x11" in your myports.txt. You will not want those when switching to Quartz. Maybe editing myports.txt to remove all those "+x11"s before running it through the restoration process is sufficient.
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Okay, I thought so… 

So any ports of mine with archs=‘x86_64’ or archs=‘noarch’ won’t cause any problems on Mojave?

Did you see any other possible problematic ports in the list?

Thanks