Re: expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Mar 27, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >> >> IMHO, if upstream have 'officially' dropped support for OSX10.6, then this >> is not something MacPorts ports should second guess, so my preference would >> be for the 3rd option, just

Re: expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday March 27 2015 14:20:57 Mojca Miklavec wrote: >My suggestion would be to require a "hack" from users for now and have >something that conditionally works. And only later try to figure out >if Qt's sources could be modified in such a way that the compiler >could be reliably set to ${prefix

Re: expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday March 27 2015 14:20:57 Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thanks Mojca :) >My suggestion would be to require a "hack" from users for now and have >something that conditionally works. And only later try to figure out >if Qt's sources could be modified in such a way that the compiler >could be reliabl

Re: expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > > IMHO, if upstream have 'officially' dropped support for OSX10.6, then this > is not something MacPorts ports should second guess, so my preference would > be for the 3rd option, just drop support. This is what I did with the root6 > port, whi

Re: expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday March 27 2015 11:33:28 Chris Jones wrote: > How does requiring 'port select' to have been run work with the > buildbots, where this cannot be done ? If I were still a 10.6 user I'd have a big preference over having to build a port myself rather than not being able to install it at all

Re: expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread Chris Jones
On 27/03/15 11:05, René J.V. Bertin wrote: Hello, I've managed to get Qt 5.3 to build on OS X 10.6 and adapt my qt5-mac-devel Portfile for that. No small feat, as this is not officially supported by Digia. Main issue here: the system compilers on 10.6 (*gcc-4.2, and clang from Xcode 3.2 as we

expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

2015-03-27 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hello, I've managed to get Qt 5.3 to build on OS X 10.6 and adapt my qt5-mac-devel Portfile for that. No small feat, as this is not officially supported by Digia. Main issue here: the system compilers on 10.6 (*gcc-4.2, and clang from Xcode 3.2 as well as Xcode 4.2) are incapable of building Qt