Kito wrote:
On Oct 12, 2005, at 12:34 AM, Grobian wrote:
Lina Pezzella wrote:
On Oct 10, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Mike wrote:
I want to make xorg-x11 available for mac-os or macos (whichever the
If you're happy to let portage overwrite Apple-provided files
(note: dependencies may cause more files to be overwritten than you
anticipated) then you can do this by changing your profile to the
"Progressive" profile. This is easily done by setting the symlink
/etc/make.profile point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-
darwin/macos/progressive.
I think some people willl be interested in running Xorg instead of
AppleX11. Knowing how to compile it is nice for when we will be
able to install everything without collising like fink does.
Efforts might be best spent on the modular xorg ebuilds, as I'm sure
the gentoo xorg maintainers will want to ditch the monolithic ebuilds
at some point down the road...although there might be too much voodoo
in getting XDarwin.app etc. installed properly for the gentoo xorg
maintainers to stomach, so perhaps xorg-darwin is a possibility...
My current understanding is that the only active developer working
on the progressive profile is Kito. If you're interested in testing
for
I'd say there is noone working on the progressive profile at the
moment. As far as I know, Kito doesn't have a progressive setup as
well. Hopefully the progressive profile will be deprecated eventually.
Not sure what gave you that idea...its the only profile for OS X I
find useful :p I know a few others are using it as well. Its
basically the proving ground for the portage base-system packages.
Its also whats used for Darwin development, as building Darwin system
packages requires a heavily modified OS X environment. I don't plan
on deprecating it at all, if you feel strongly otherwise, maybe you
should split the profiles up (again) and let the collision-protect
profiles that install packages to / (non-prefixed) live in profiles/
default-macos and leave profiles/default-darwin for, well, darwin.
--Kito
ok Kito, I know you, and for those whom I do not recognize, on the IRC
channel I am lost626. I know I have talked to a ReJ and an R2D2, and
robinp, but I think I may be forgetting a couple. I have tentatively
recruited a friend of mine to help who is just waiting for prefix
support in portage to use it. He is the one (genious) who "broke me in"
and "taught me the ropes" on the GNOME 2.10 fink port. He also figured
out how to hardcode some libraries in the pango package to get it to
compile right.
As for XDarwin It is my X11 of choice on OS X. As for getting it to
compile, there is no configure phase that I know of, so Lina, I am
confused there. actually the only time I have built it in a package
manager is yesterday on fink, where I just modified the package to make
-j3 World. otherwise I have done it myself with make World and sudo
make install, so I don't know what the problem with it would be.
And I am thinking it may be a compiler error because I have found a few
gcc4 patches for xorg, and I have also built the same version of xorg on
jaguar with gcc3.3. I tried compiling it myself without changing my gcc
select to 3.3 and as I stated there was no startx actions when run, and
no /Applications/XDarwin.app produced. I double checked the fink
package and even that has a gcc select 3 call in it, so that further
reinforced my thinking of it being a problem with gcc4. Though XDarwin
will most likely be easy I would only like to do it if no one else can,
or has a faster computer, since in OS X it takes me 7 hours or more to
compile it. I think I might be out of developing for OS X for a couple
days as I am working on a few Linux From Scratch systems, just to get
the real nitty gritty on a unix type platform.
I am also inclined to wait for the next release for prefix support which
opens up a few new tricks that I am familiar with. Also Tony asked me,
and I would like to know if there is an experimental portage out there
that has prefix support in it, that we could compile and play with, and
if not when the next release is due.
Mike
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