Hi Riccardo,

I have installed your config and patches,  reset the build system, and I have 
things building.

Will see how it goes!

Best, Ken



On 2018-01-05, at 3:53 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote:
>> I actually use a different one, it is not commited (*), I attach it here.
>> It disables several problematic features: The goal is currently to "finish 
>> the build" and see if we start up the browser.
>> Slowly we can then debug enable things again, but with a priority.
>> It makes no sense to concentrate on the first issue found when there are 
>> maybe other important features missing.
>> 
>>  
> 
> Did you get my patches and build configuration I sent you off-list?
> 
> How fare do you get now? I'm still stuck at the same point before Christmas
> 
> 
> Riccardo
>> 
>> The miracle didn't happen yet :)
>> 
>> I attach some other local patches whcich are either mere hacks or written in 
>> a way upsteam does not approve.
>> 
>> 1) stuff to disable SSE2 and AVX2 in libvpx
>> 2) patch to disable SKIA completely. It is disabled on current PPC builds, 
>> might be difficult to enable in the future
>> 3) patch to work around some libstdc++ namespace issues. Perhaps there are 
>> better ways, it is very strange that TT maintainer does NOT have this 
>> issues, while from some bug I found in GCC and MacPorts they look like 
>> issues with older OS's. My guess is that a newer version of GCC might help. 
>> I think the GCC headers are not correctly working around the missing 
>> functions because "something" is not enabled. The patch comes out of the GCC 
>> 4.8 headers themselves, but without the ifdef's inside
>> 
>> Since you need to pach configure, I am sorry, but you need to remove your 
>> build directory and restart from scatch.
> 
> You may apply them blindly or check them one by one. For SKIA you can trust 
> me, AVX2 is possibly compiler and configuration related, if you use gcc 4.8 
> as suggested, go with that one to.
> The patch 3) about libstcc is very interesting, since the maintainer doesn't 
> needed it. You could try without.
> 
>> (**) I just found out that my Mailer GNUMail currently chokes on 
>> attachments... will send you them in a different way. More details on that 
>> Later
> 
> Fixed that too :)
> 
> Riccardo

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