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on consensus of pkgsrc developers from private discussion. Essentially 10.3 and below will not be allowed to clutter the PR db, 10.4 is iffy, and 10.5 and 10.6 are normal.
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$NetBSD: README.MacOSX,v 1.9 2010/10/31 21:24:14 gdt Exp $
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Binary ABI problem:
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard supports 64-Bit binaries on most Intel Macs
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and builds those by default on such machine. This causes problems
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with a lot of packages which get confused because "MACHINE_ARCH"
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is set to "i386" (on a 64-bit system!). There are also packages
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that don't support 64-bit under Mac OS X at all. It is therefore
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recommended that use the "--abi 32" option of "bootstrap"
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under Mac OS X Snow Leopard at the moment.
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Developer tools:
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If you haven't already, you will need to install the Mac OS X Developer
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Tools package. Depending on the version of OS X you are running, you
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may have this on CD. If not, you can download it from Apple's
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Developer Connection. (You will need to register for a free ADC
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account.) See http://developer.apple.com/macosx/ for details.
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Note for MacOS X 1.4 (Tiger) you will need to download xcode 2.5
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if you intend to use gcc 4. gcc 4.0.0 bundled with xcode 2.0 on
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the desktop installation dvds builds broken pkg_install tools.
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If you plan to build packages that use the X11 Window System, you will
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also need to make sure you have X11 installed. OS X 10.3 (Panther)
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includes X11 and X11 SDK packages on CD. If you are using an older
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version of OS X, you can install the XFree86 packages instead, from
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www.xfree86.org.
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Experimental support for IBM's XL C/C++ compiler is present (tested
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with version 6.0). To use it, set:
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PKGSRC_COMPILER=xlc
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in mk.conf. XL C uses the Apple provided libtool to create shared
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libraries, however, we must force it to call libtool with the full
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path to avoid calling the pkgsrc provided GNU libtool with arguments
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that it does not understand.
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edit the template configuration file /opt/ibmcmp/vac/6.0/etc/vac.base.cfg
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and set:
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libtool = /usr/bin/libtool
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then run:
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/opt/ibmcmp/vacpp/6.0/bin/vacpp_configure -gcc /usr -install -force
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as root to install the configuration.
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to bootstrap with xlc, you need to make sure CFLAGS contains "-ma":
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env CC=/opt/ibmcmp/vacpp/6.0/bin/xlc CFLAGS=-ma ./bootstrap
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Mac OS X Versions
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pkgsrc is a volunteer project, and individuals support/fix packages
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and platforms as they choose. However, pkgsrc contributors as a group
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share both a bugtracker and norms about what is ok to break and what
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is not. To describe these norms, we define levels of concern, keeping
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in mind that there are no guarantees:
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SUPPORTED doesn't mean that anyone is required to fix your problem; it
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means that we agree that it is broadly desireable that such problems
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be fixed and that we therefore allow them to be listed in our issue
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tracker.
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DEPRECATED means that individual problems are not of interest, but
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pkgsrc overall working is of enough interest to be allowed to be
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listed in the issue tracker.
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IGNORED means we are not willing to expend issue tracker resources
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(clutter for those reviewing the db) at all.
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Given the above definitions, the pkgsrc developers label versions of
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Mac OS X as follows:
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10.6: current, PRs may be filed. Structurally breaking pkgsrc on 10.6
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is considered not ok. [SUPPORTED]
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10.5: old, but PRs may still be filed. Structurally breaking pkgsrc on
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10.5 is considered not ok. [SUPPORTED]
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10.4: very old, and individual pkg PRs may be bounced to authors to
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retest with newer versions, and closed if that doesn't happen
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in 14 days. We will for now consider structurally breaking
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pkgsrc on 10.4 to be undesirable. If keeping support for 10.4
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causes excessive work for maintainers it may be moved to
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IGNORED state any time, without warning. [DEPRECATED]
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10.3 and below: ancient, and PRs will be summarily closed. It is
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acceptable to give zero consideration to causing structural
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problems on 10.3 and below. [IGNORED]
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