smtube -- useful little youtube browser.

Sat Feb 2 18:04:34 UTC 2019

On 2019-02-02, at 8:01 AM, Uli Wienands wrote:

> 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!).

That might work for getting past a frustrated moment, but you'll want to remove that symlink ASAP and rebuild whichever port couldn't find libreadline.7.dylib (almost certainly it's "gawk" which is a notable PITA every time we update readline for this issue. 

> 
> Next step is that gnutls does not want to build. I get a message about it cannot build with autoconf-archive being active.

yep, we already worked out that one. You just have to disable autoconf-archive, with the instructions in the message. Takes 10 seconds.  If somebody has some days to spend on it, it might be possible to change gnutls to not break with autoconf-archive is installed -- that is a project I have no interest in taking on.

> 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.

No need to give up. Leave mpv on stock SL with me; I thought that worked already.

GitHub is changing it's backend frequently lately -- hopefully we can find some way to use it that works with slightly older Firefox versions. (Some GitHub mobile site, perhaps).  I use "epiphany" but the last few gnutls updates broke it, so i can't recommend that for general use at present.

We'll get there!

Ken

> 
> 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>
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