Mike wrote:
Hello list, I am a new developer for this project, transferring from fink.
Welcome!
First thing's first. I am not sure what the goal of this project is, which goes directly to the first package I want to make. Is the goal here like fink to bring OSS to Darwin/OSX?
That sounds like a good goal; I'll go with that! ;)
I want to make xorg-x11 available for mac-os or macos (whichever the keyword is) and with gcc3.3 selected it compiles fine, into XDarwin, but this would overwrite Apple's installed /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 for new entries. I have not run into any conflicting packages yet so I am not sure, but is there a way that this is possible.
If you don't want portage to look out for conflicts, disable the feature in /etc/make.conf.
I just know what I read and I read that if a package tries to overwrite something Apple installed then it will fail.
This is true if collision-protect is enabled.
BTW I am using 10.4.2 and Xcode 2.1 with gcc4 selected, so I will also have to read more into making ebuilds to know if you can use a gcc selector for 3.3 because the last timne I compiled XDarwin with 4.0 (yesterday) it didn't produce the XDarwin.app , and startx didn't do anything.
I do not believe the gentoo gcc select is available on our platform yet. This may be tricky.
Now in closing let me say that I am excited about doing what I can for this project, I love gentoo linux, so this was only the next logical step for me. Let me know how I can help
Glad to have you! Just watch the lists, {gentoo-osx,[EMAIL PROTECTED] and file bugs when things work (or don't) so that we know about them. And food. I'm fairly sure we all can use food whenever it's available. :D
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