smtube -- useful little youtube browser.

[Uli Wienands]

Some progress:

I followed Ken's suggestion below (clean and try again). Now the logfile 
revealed that it was missing libreadline.7.dylib, which caused 
generation of the make file to fail.
Sure enough, I have libreadline.8.dylib. Macports does not have the 
presumably older version 7 anymore.
Got myself out of that one by manually creating a link to 
libreadline.8.0.dylib from libreadline.7.dylib. Crossed fingers & tried 
again: Success. gtk-doc is now installed. (All this hassle for updating 
by one minor incremental release... sheesh!).

Next step is that gnutls does not want to build. I get a message about 
it cannot build with autoconf-archive being active. I'll have to put 
this down for now as some real work needs to get done first.

Ryan suggested I file a bug report, unfortunately none of my browsers on 
this 10.6.8 system work with Github so that has to wait until I get back 
to my more modern machine.

I am not giving up yet.

Uli

On 2/2/19 12:05 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> On 2019-02-01, at 8:21 PM, Uli Wienands wrote:
>
>> Ken, thanks.
>>
>> I did as you suggested (having clang 5 already installed some time ago).
>>
>> It installs a lot of dependencies that it did not try before. It even updated clang 5.0 itself (which I don't really appreciate) Eventually it craps out on gtk-doc, with an error during configuration (somewhat unusual).. Now, why gtk-doc is required is beyond me; I can certainly live without documentations. Also, I have a bunch of gtkdoc-<something> files in /opt/local/bin so I think I may hae gtk-doc already.
>>
>> Anyway, stuck again. Log attached.
>
> I see:
>
> This file was extended by gtk-doc config.status 1.29, which was
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
>
>    CONFIG_FILES    =
>    CONFIG_HEADERS  =
>    CONFIG_LINKS    =
>    CONFIG_COMMANDS =
>    $ ./config.status
>
> on mbp-17
>
> config.status:1261: creating Makefile
> config.status:1413: error: could not create Makefile
>
>
> Which is a weird error --- is your disk full or something?
>
> anyway,
>
> sudo port clean gtk-doc
> sudo port -v install gtk-doc
>
> should work, did for me:
>
> $ port -v installed gtk-doc
> The following ports are currently installed:
>    gtk-doc @1.29_2+python36 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='noarch' date='2019-01-06T17:27:05-0800'
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>
>> Uli
>>
>>
>> On 2/1/19 12:04 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> I am sorry to hear that. Almost every port builds for me on 10.6.8. There are few exceptions these days -- only MacOS SDK issues.
>>>
>>> But unfortunately the blacklisting and whitelisting and fallbacks in MacPorts don't always work out, as hard as we try to make it happen.
>>>
>>> I default to build every port with clang-5.0 these days, by setting this in "/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf"
>>>
>>> default_compilers       macports-clang-5.0  macports-clang-3.9 macports-clang-3.8 macports-clang-3.7 gcc-4.2 llvm-gcc-4.2 apple-gcc-4.2 apple-gcc-4.0 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.0
>>>
>>> IF you would like to get MPlayer to build, you most likely would have success doing the same, or for a one-off build, do something like this:
>>>
>>> sudo port clean MPlayer
>>>
>>> sudo port -v install MPlayer configure.compiler=macports-clang-5.0
>>>
>>> I dream of the day that all of MacPorts is set up to:
>>>
>>> 1. use libc++I for every build
>>> 2. use clang-5.0 or newer for every build
>>>
>>> but in the meantime you may need to force a compiler as I showed above.
>>>
>>> It does work:
>>>
>>> $ port -v installed mplayer
>>> The following ports are currently installed:
>>>    MPlayer @1.3.0_3 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='x86_64' date='2019-01-22T19:47:43-0800'
>>>
>>>
>>> as far back as 10.4 on all systems.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2019-01-31, at 9:10 PM, Uli Wienands wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tried to build ir on 10.6 but no luck. Craps out on MPlayer.
>>>>
>>>> log attached.
>>>>
>>>> Any hint would be welcome
>>>>
>>>> Uli
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/31/19 2:25 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>>>> Some folks over in the MacRumors forums noticed this `smtube` YouTube mini-browser works very nicely on older systems (10.7 and less).
>>>>>
>>>>> I put together a port for it, and I have to say I'm pleased with the performance as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're interested and have an older system like this, please consider giving it a try!
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken
>>>> <main.lg.zip>
>> <config.log.zip>