On Apr 14, 2012, at 3:39, Andrea D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 21:28,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Revision 91946 Author [email protected] Date 2012-04-13 12:28:11 -0700
>> (Fri, 13 Apr 2012)
>> Log Message
>> wine-devel: Tiger build fix
> 
> Is Tiger a supported platform? Is there an explicit set of supported platform?
> 
> I thought Leopard was the least supported platform for 2.x but I
> cannot remember where this idea came from.

Historically, we've supported current and previous OS versions, but we try not 
to break older versions if we can help it.  In practice, most port maintainers 
support whatever OS they run on, and usually others try to fill in the gaps 
when problems occur.  Since not many people live on Tiger any more, it 
naturally is less well supported. Also Tiger/ppc is probably in worse shape 
than Tiger/i386 for the same reason.

I recently freed up an old MacBook and decided to clear out my "XXXX doesn't 
build on Tiger" bug reports because I don't like regressions as a matter of 
principle, so that's why you may have seen a few such commits from me over the 
past week or so.

Tiger's development tools are very different than what are on Leopard and 
newer.  I gave up on using XCode 2.5's toolchain and instead got more modern 
toolchains building.  I then switched default_compiler (trunk base) to 
apple-gcc42 with macports ld64 and cctools installed.  With this toolchain and 
some minor patching along the way, I was able to build all of my ports on 
Tiger.  If you still have a Tiger box, you might want to try that as your 
default_compiler.

--Jeremy

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