how about doing a poll on osx users. I have a double boot with fedora10 and osx10.6, but can't build gem in osx yet...
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:32 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:51 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>>> >>>> I just noticed while looking into the -fno-common thing that Gem is >>>> compiling on Mac OS X using -mmacosx-version-min=10.3 AFAIK, Gem hasn't >>>> built on 10.3 in years. From my experience, there are less deployment >>> >>> do you mean "hasn't built" or "hasn't been built"? >>> if the former, are the problems fixable. > > here the last period was meant to be a question mark. > >>> if the latter, it doesn't matter. >> >> Well, I think the former is the problem, and if you can't built it on >> 10.3, then you won't be using 10.3 builds. > > this i don't understand. > if nobody has built on 10.3 for ages, than this is one thing. i have not > much feedback about the OSX versions people are actually using. > it's been a long time since the last person complained about not being > ableto run Gem on 10.3. this might have two reasons: > - no Gem user uses 10.3 any more > - Gem does work on 10.3 > - something else > > then: i thought the "-mmacosx-version-min=10.3" kind of ensures that the > build will run on 10.3 even if you are building on 10.5. > is this a misconception on my side? > if not, this means that even if you can't build on 10.3, people might > still be using 10.3 builds. > > i (think that i) don't have access to a 10.3 machine, so i cannot really > test. > but i would like to not change anything because of mere speculations. > >>>> issues if things are built for the most recent supported version (i.e. >>>> 10.4). >>> >>> which "issues"? >> >> >> Like newer OSes included freetype, which Gem will link against unless >> forced not to. > > that should read "OSXes" rather than "OSes", right? > > anyhow: > > > i didn't know that freetype was included in OSX since 10.4 (or 10.5, if > that matters) > > if Gem still runs on 10.3, i would like to keep it like that. > > the official binaries are linking statically against ftgl/freetype, so > the deployment issue is not a big deal. > > for PdX builds, you could change the osx-min-version. > > a command line argument to ./configure to specify an alternative > "osx-min-version" would be a good idea. > > > fg,asdr > IOhannes > > > _______________________________________________ > GEM-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev > > -- Jaime E Oliver LR [email protected] www.realidadvisual.org/jaimeoliver www-crca.ucsd.edu/ www.realidadvisual.org 858 750 0924 (cel) 858 202 1522 (home) 9168 Regents Rd. Apt. G La Jolla, CA 92037 USA _______________________________________________ GEM-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev
