Hello,
port:audacity is (apparently) in a state of limbo currently, with a number of
build failure reports. It's also outdated.
A few observations:
- the official build still runs on OS X 10.9 and it looks I can get it to build
there too
- older OS versions are out of luck, while I think the cu
Klaus W wrote on 20230320::07:52:14 re: "Re: macOS Monterey problem running
Okular"
Hello Klaus,
I'm copying the MacPorts users mailing list on my reply: this would be the
first place to ask about problems like you are having with ports.
I'll try to answer what I can. Hopefully someone from th
Hi,
I'm looking for some code that will allow me to export the entire contents of
Apple keychains, if possible directly in a way that I can import the data in
another cross-platform utility.
I should be able to write something based on the "security" (example?) tool but
would of course prefer t
On Wednesday June 07 2023 06:55:25 Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote:
Hi,
>I haven't tried it, but there is a 'dump-keychain' command for security(1)
>that might do what you want:
Yes, that's why I know I could use the code from the source for that command.
The format as it is is quite useless th
Hi,
I'm running into a mystery trying to install from a python source tarball using
pip, in the destroot phase of a port. That sounds like a question for the -dev
ML; I'm posting it here because I think it's really a question about python.
I have this snippet of portfile code:
{{{
destroot
A spin-off to trac:68137 and posted to the user list to give "user users" a
chance to chime in and voice support:
What if those "py-foo" ports could be something other than stub ports? I'm
pretty certain that the majority of python ports that do not install compiled
binaries are (largely) versi
Hi,
Does anybody here use WireGuard or OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.9.5, maybe even with
Proton VPN as I'm hoping to do?
I managed to get a 2021 version of wireguard-go to build but it fails to
initialise (create a "utun" interface) with a message about buffer space not
available, so that avenue see
On Saturday December 09 2023 12:26:05 Steven Smith wrote:
>Yes, I used OpenVPN. For a decent configuration, see:
After trying several GUI wrappers in their legacy version for 10.9 which all
failed with similar errors I discovered that OpenVPN2 can take the
configuration files that you can downl
Hello,
1) How do I add information to the portsandbox_profile such that a given path
is whitelisted during the destroot step? Based on the few examples that do this
in the pre-test I tried to do it in the pre-destroot but that doesn't appear to
work. Doing it in the Portfile root also doesn't w
Hi,
It seems I've gotten myself into some real trouble, and the problem is I have
no idea how/why. Hence the cross-posting...
I can no longer launch the X11 environment in which I did almost all my work
and that's crucial for displaying remote applications.
The original XQuartz environment has
René J.V. Bertin wrote on 20240216::23:19:30 re: "X11 no longer starts"
I made a final attempt before calling it a day, and discovered that
```
# xinit ~/.xinitrc -- /opt/local/bin/Xquartz :0 -nolisten tcp -iglx
```
gives me a fully functional server, without any of the delays that I get from
Well, at 3h this morning I had it mostly working again. I think the order of
mishaps was
1) me setting PATH in the launchctl environment
2) before undoing that (and rebooting), me calling `startx` or running X11.app
from a terminal as root with the idea that the IPC error might go away because
On Saturday February 17 2024 09:00:13 Jeremy Sequoia wrote:
Hi,
>Over TCP, you might not be getting DRI and GLX, so that might be forcing GTK
>down some alternative codepath
>
Yes, that's what I thought re: performance or feature loss, but `glxinfo` shows
the same features with both DISPLAY ty
On Saturday February 17 2024 18:13:47 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>I tried exiting from X11, emoving /tmp/.font-unix, /tmp/.X11-unix* and
>/tmp/.ICE-unix and restarting X11. That recreated all those dirs except
>.font-unix (was empty and 0777) and .X11-SrkljqE7 (0700) ... and the problem
>is gone.
I have a hunch of the direct reason, but still no explanation why this has
started happening.
My X11 session is "anchored" by an xfce4-panel. It looks like the offending
XCreatePixmap call might be targetting a drawable that's owned by that panel
process, e.g. to install the application icon in
I'm still at this but have been updating a stackexchange question with my
observations: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/769515/70384 (probably better
than continuing to spam y'all ;))
I'll just relay the latest 2:
- Running e.g. sudo zenity --calendar doesn't throw a BadAccess which again
poi
Hi,
I was just informed that Firefox will break the sync function in older versions
of its browser, including the 78 esr I've been using for the past years. It
seems that might finally motivate me to upgrade my MBP to the latest OS it
supports officially (10.13).
(The alternative would be to k
On Friday February 23 2024 21:55:53 Clemens Lang wrote:
>You did not include the version you're upgrading from, so this is
Sorry, 10.9.5 . Last time I upgraded was from 10.6, and that was a sufficiently
cumbersome that I haven't been able to motivate myself to see how much more
time it would co
Hi,
This is a development question but not about MacPorts ports so I'm posting it
here:
I'm currently working on another CMake contribution that aims to check whether
the selected compiler(s) can and do target the architecture(s) selected via
CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES. The idea is to extend an e
Sergey Fedorov wrote on 20240810::05:46:49 re: "Re: MacPorts on Linux"
BTW, a propos the slowness of portindex: on my system "base" startup has become
roughly twice as slow, which you really notice in the simple commands like
`port work` or `port info`
Hi,
Pardon the intrusion, but who else feels like the new progress indicator during
port de/activation is an unnecessary overhead that (in my timing) can make
these steps take up 1.5-2x as long? (And for me that's on spinning rust; I
expect the overhead to be even larger with fast disks.)
For
On Sunday August 11 2024 14:52:37 Clemens Lang wrote:
>The progress bar only displays for ports with many files that take long
>to activate.
Long being 500ms, the hardcoded duration threshold (which is reached more
easily because of the feature itself). On not so recent hardware or simply an
ex
PS: the speed-up of `portindex` is appreciable though (just to say something
positive ^^)
On Sunday August 11 2024 14:52:37 Clemens Lang wrote:
>Feel free to contribute a macports.conf option in a pull request.
Is there something like a tutorial somewhere documenting how one adds a
configure option like that?
And fwiw, I've accumulated a number of other patches to "base" over the ye
On Sunday August 11 2024 14:52:37 Clemens Lang wrote:
>
>Feel free to contribute a macports.conf option in a pull request.
I'm preparing a PR that includes all my tweaks to the progress reporting
feature and introduces 3 config variables to customise it.
As a FWIW now that will hopefully attrac
Hi,
This is one of those periods where I notice that "damn, I should update my
Perl5 and/or Python interpreters, but then I'll also have to reinstall a whole
bunch of modules for them and figure out which old ones I can throw out". MAYBE
that would be easier if I kept my entire installation per
On Sunday August 11 2024 14:52:37 Clemens Lang wrote:
>Feel free to contribute a macports.conf option in a pull request.
Here it is (now without stupid error):
https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/348
NB: I had posted this almost a week ago, via the GMane mirror of the ML. I see
that
Hi,
I just discovered that my new refurb. iPhoneSE2 won't connect to iTunes on OS X
10.9.5 while the 1st gen iPhoneSE still did (couldn't apply updates on it, but
could sync and back it up). Bummer...
MSWin machine to the rescue, but I have a hunch this might have something to do
with the runn
Succinct answer to self : yes and no.
Hi,
There have been a few recent issue reports about port:VLC on Trac, as well as a
somewhat older upgrade request.
I now have a working upgrade to 3.0.4 that should be compatible with 10.14
thanks to Michael Lass:
https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/multimedia/VLC
This port replaces
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why port:kde4-workspace fails to build on 10.14, with
linker errors that suggest that the system clang has a subtle new and
incompatible symbol visibility policy. (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57332).
Are there known issues with Qt4 and/or KDE4 software on Apple
About the flashing you mention: is that related to the use of raster mode
rendering, like KDE4 apps also do?
On Thursday October 11 2018 01:37:51 Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/751
>
>I have no idea if it's really the same underlying cause to the KDE4 graphics
>issues vs MacVim, but they both are not handling display updating correctly
>from the looks of it.
It
On Thursday October 11 2018 05:06:51 Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>What "them"? The KDE folks? Apple? I thought Qt4/KDE4 was unsupported.
Apple. It shouldn't matter for them whether Qt4/KDE4 is supported or not, this
is a compatibility issue for older/legacy apps.
I know their target population
On Thursday October 11 2018 14:44:45 Ian Wadham wrote:
Hi Ian,
Long time no see indeed!
You raise a couple of good points (even explaining why I myself am still on
10.9 ;)).
Yes, KDE4 has been unsupported for a while, so has Qt4. That's fine for most
apps which now have KF5 versions that are
Hi,
Is anyone using cmake for the development of applications for Apple's
non-desktop OS flavours (iOS, WatchOS etc)?
Reason for asking is that CMake doesn't set the Info.plist flags necessary for
high-DPI support because it uses the same template plist for all application
bundles regardless o
> Can you please ask upstream and link the answer? Ideally open a bug
> report with a minimal example?
See upstream commit #286c75f7f034c5fdcd43bcb755da74d09c809642 ... It's not easy
at all to convince upstream when changes are required, and in this case it'd
require finding a proper implementat
FWIW, I now have confirmation that just setting NSPrincipalClass to
NSApplication (in the Info.plist) is sufficient to enable high-dpi behaviour in
Qt applications built through cmake.
R
> Apple requires each app to specify that it supports Retina mode.
AFAIK applications have always existed that set NSPrincipalClass to
NSApplication; do these now behave incorrectly on high-dpi screens if they
don't contain any modifications to their code? Somehow I doubt that.
> MacPorts and
Hi,
Would applications using Carbon start failing if they claim high-dpi support in
their plist - and can those still be built on recent OS versions?
Mojca: Do you have X11 applications that live in an app bundle? If so, what
happens when you add either NSPrincipalClass=NSApplication or
NSHigh
On Friday March 15 2019 17:54:35 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Carbon is 32-bit, so you can build Carbon apps if you can build 32-bit apps.
> You can't build 32-bit apps on Mojave, unless you sue the 10.13 or older SDK.
I'm pretty certain at least parts of the Carbon API exist for 64bit
applications (Q
On Sunday April 14 2019 08:46:16 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>Dear Stan,
>to package it. In any case I had absolutely no idea how to use it when
>I tried it on a linux box, so I assume I didn't even try.
That's another way of saying the interface isn't very intuitive ;)
>- if Renee has some code, we
Hi,
It's possible to install a port by executing `port install` from within a
portdir (that is not in a declared ports tree). But as soon as you include a
port name the local Portfile will be ignored, so how does one install a subport
from such a portdir, e.g. from a py-foo port where the main
> sudo port install subport=py27-foo
Thanks!
Seems like something to mention in the port-install manual?
On Tuesday June 11 2019 09:51:43 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Should it be? The use of command line variable overrides should not be
> encouraged for end users, though it is something developers might need
> occasionally.
In this case it's a crucial bit of information. WHich btw I didn't think to
test
On Tuesday June 11 2019 10:10:21 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > or change "base" so it will recognise when a port name corresponds to a
> > subport provided by the Portfile in the working directory.
>
> That doesn't seem like a change that would be a good idea.
Honestly, why not? I've always found it
On Wednesday June 12 2019 20:31:29 Rainer Müller wrote:
>To know which port is provided by the Portfile in the current directory,
>we would first have to parse it. If a Portfile exists, any port action
>would always be delayed by this parsing in the current directory only to
>check the name. In ca
Hi,
I hadn't connected to the shares of our 2 MSWin computers for a while, and now
discover all of a sudden that apparently I can no longer authenticate.
Has a more-or-less recent Win10 update pushed changes that the samba layer of
my ageing 10.9 OS can no longer deal with? I can still connect
Andrew Udvare wrote:
> VLC built from MacPorts can see my Chromecast but it cannot stream to it.
> Seems to be a missing module based on the log. The version from the VLC
> website works fine.
Would you mind rebuilding VLC with `--enable-chromecast` added to
configure.args
(don't worry about wh
Hi,
Mostly out of curiosity I upgraded my GTk3 install (which I'd been keeping at
the latest version still offering real theming, to 3.24.20) and webkit2-gtk
(2.28.2); all "normally" against X11. I ran the antutu.com HTML5 benchmark in
the webkit minibrowser app, left for a bit, and came back t
On Friday April 30 2021 12:13:35 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>Does anyone have similar experiences with webkit2 (the same versions behave
>normally for me on Linux)? Is there a way other than rebooting to force the OS
>to reorganise and reclaim swap file space (on Linux you'd simply remove the
>swa
Hi,
Users of older Apple OSes that are no longer receiving updates probably noticed
that Safari and Chrome-based browsers no longer connect to lots of sites
because a crucial root certificate has expired.
Answer 1 to
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/422332/how-do-i-update-my-root-cert
Hi,
I no longer have the time nor the motivation to keep maintaining this port (I'm
moving away from Macs), so I'm relinquishing my maintainership.
Thanks,
R.B.
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Date: Friday June 10 2022
From: Ryan Schmidt
To: macports/macports-ports
Cc: René
Hi,
I've been doing some maintenance an an in-law's 2011 iMac, upgrading it from
10.11 to 10.13. At some point I noticed that the fullscreen widget was missing
from the right corner of the window title bars, and that the "maximise" button
apparently toggles fullscreen mode.
Which begs the ques
Hi,
Any Xfwm4 users here?
I've just installed the latest version (4.12.3), and it still shows a glitch
which I'm beginning to think must be due to some issue in XQuartz.
Dialogs ('transient for' windows(?)) are stacked behind the window they're a
transient for. Since most of the time they're s
Hello,
It seems KDE's Calligra project has released their 3.0.0 version which is based
on Qt5 and KF5 Frameworks, though the website hasn't been updated yet
(www.calligra.org).
KF5 ports for MacPorts are still available only via my personal ports tree but
should become available officially at
On Wednesday December 07 2016 13:48:20 Eneko Gotzon wrote:
>1.
>Calligra Words, Sheets
>&
> Stage
Noted, thanks.
> somewhat leaner and faster than LibreOffice
> > .
> >
>
> LibreOffice is quite
> slow at launch.
Yes, but that's typically only the 1st time you launch it,
Hi,
A little present for the new year (with best wishes and all), for the
adventurous and those yearning for Qool new features: Qt 5.7.1 is now available
for testing in an alternative port.
R.
-- Forwarded Message --
Comment (by RJVB):
Upgrading to Qt 5.7.1 proved relative
Hi,
Can someone please confirm whether /bin/sh is still POSIX compliant on
10.12.latest (i.e. `/bin/sh --version` shows it's actually bash), please?
thanks,
René
Thanks. This doesn't really answer the question if /bin/sh is still bash but I
suppose there is little chance that has changed since 10.9 .
R.
On Tuesday March 07 2017 16:32:37 j. van den hoff wrote:
> right. and I would have thought _that_ part of your original mail (the
> main part seemingly was concerned with POSIX compliance, no?) you had
> already answered yourself via issuing `/bin/sh --version'?
Indeed, but on 10.9 . I needed
Hi,
Not specifically a MacPorts question: didn't Mac OS X at some point allow
opening context menus with a click-and-hold gesture in addition to a
Ctrl-Click? Or am I confounding with iOS?
R.
On Wednesday March 15 2017 18:16:20 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> That behavior is specific to Dock.
That seems unusually inconsistent.
On Wednesday March 15 2017 20:22:00 Brandon Allbery wrote:
>You don't use iTunes, do you? Apple gave up on consistency years ago.
As little as possible. I use older/cheaper systems as audio sources, preferably
under MSWin O:-)
On Wednesday March 15 2017 17:39:47 Al Varnell wrote:
>Personally, I
Hi,
I ran into what looks to be a bug in Apple's fullscreen algorithms. On 10.9.5
with screens DO NOT have separate spaces:
1) open a Terminal.app window, write down the shell's PID
2) make it fullscreen using the titlebar button
3) open a new window using Command-N
4) exit from fullscreen mode
On Thursday April 20 2017 23:20:33 db wrote:
> > Same happens with a Qt-based console emulator so this is not a bug in
> > Terminal.app .
>
> I couldn't reproduce it on 10.8.5. Have you tried switching between the
> windows using the Window menu or ⌘1, ⌘2, etc?
Ah, thanks, so this appears to b
Hi,
I just noticed that clang-4.0 is finally available in a release version. Has
anyone already been using it enough to compare it to clang-3.9 in terms of
performance and resource requirements?
Thanks :)
R.
Hello,
Please excuse the interruption - has anyone else been seeing this error when
trying to build GCC (or possible, libgcc)?
And what about gcc 7, anyone been looking at that? 7.1 is out so there's no
reason port should still be marked experimental...
Thanks,
René
--
On Thursday May 11 2017 03:23:31 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
>I have not seen that problem building gcc6 before.
Any idea what it could be? Even something silly as having the version already
installed? I don't see how that could influence the parsing behaviour of the
1st bootstrapping compiler bu
OK, I'm completely flabbergasted now. The build goes fine WITHOUT my patch so
apparently there is something to it after all that interferes with the build.
It's clearly not a patch that I managed to get to work by applying it *after* a
first successful build completion because it looks like repe
On Thursday May 11 2017 07:38:01 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/c4ddd1af302d5be105cbd58d2cb5dce89e892858
I was assuming that for my local copy I could start by just bumping the
version, but I see now that might not work because port:gcc7 depends on
port:
On Thursday May 11 2017 07:38:01 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I will work on it later.
I think you're on the ticket CC list but in case you missed it:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53605#comment:8
R.
Hi,
I just filed a ticket with a feature request for port:gcc & port:libgcc that
would cut install and upgrade times and bandwidth requirements in 2 for those
of us installing those ports from source.
I'm advertising that ticket here since the ports do not currently have a
maintainer (and it w
Hello,
Is it enough to install port:llvm-4.0 +polly to get the (potential) benefits of
that optimiser or do I have to rebuild port:clang-4.0 to make it aware of the
availability?
BTW, are there any real-world benefits? I haven't had any luck finding any
answer to that question that isn't in th
On Thursday May 11 2017 07:38:01 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> It's a matter of doing the equivalent of this, with updated versions:
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/c4ddd1af302d5be105cbd58d2cb5dce89e892858
>
> I will work on it later.
I hope you don't mind a helping hand :) if eve
On Thursday May 18 2017 19:05:31 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>Yes. Therefore, we need to add a libgcc6 subport, much like the existing
>libgcc45 subport.
That seems like a small change to port:gcc6, almost easier than removing the
libgcc subport completely.
But why is this handled differently that any
On Thursday May 18 2017 19:05:31 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > I hope you don't mind a helping hand :) if everything checks out I should
> > be submitting a patch for the upgrade tomorrow.
> >
> > Annoyingly libgfortran has apparently had an API change, its sonumber is
> > increased.
>
> Yes. Theref
Hello,
Any users of the old sqlitedbrowser port?
I've prepared a new port for the Qt5 version of an up-to-date comparable
application (sqlitebrowser.org) and can submit it if there's enough interest.
Hth,
René
On Monday July 10 2017 16:30:53 db wrote:
> +1
A priori you should be seeing a port:sqlitebrowser (v 3.9.1) by now.
Have fun with it!
R.
Hi,
Some of you may have seen that I've uploaded an update to port:openal-soft to
trac, bringing the port to the current v1.18.1 . I've also filed a ticket for a
build conflict in Qt5's QtMultiMedia component, which is supposed to build
against the system OpenAL.framework but which picks up
$p
Hi,
I've grown accustomed to be able to call `ssh-add -A` periodically to import
all certificates stored in my keychain into a running ssh-agent instance that I
didn't have to start. After a forced reboot last Friday (the system had been up
for 94 days) I find that ssh-agent no longer starts.
On Sunday November 05 2017 19:19:55 Kastus Shchuka wrote:
>The Listeners key in ssh-agent plist creates a randomly named socket and
>exports in SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the user’s shell. It should not be shared with
>gpg-agent to the best of my knowledge.
gpg-agent is definitely involved though. Its pl
On Monday November 06 2017 15:54:04 Rainer Müller wrote:
> The gpg-agent port used to provide this LaunchAgent, but it was recently
> marked as obsolete and replaced by gnupg2 [1]. Just uninstall the
> gpg-agent port and switch to gnupg2. gpg-agent will now be launched
> on-demand by gpg itself.
Hi,
Does `${prefix}/ssh-add -m` always return a non-zero value, or is it trying to
tell me I have an error condition somewhere?
It does this regardless of whether I have the system or MacPorts's ssh-agent
running; the equivalent `/usr/bin/ssh-add -A` command exits with 0 under the
same conditi
On Tuesday November 07 2017 12:17:25 Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> The former gpg-agent port installed a LaunchAgent, which started gpg-agent via
> launchd on user login. Not quite on-demand.
Let's put it this way: I didn't notice any loss of functionality after
unloading that plist (stopping the runn
Hi
I was glad to notice that clang 5 has a -gz option to generate compressed debug
info, but quickly discovered that in practice this means there is either no
debug information or that information isn't found (not even by lldb-5).
I'm seeing the same thing with port:clang-5 on Mac and the offic
On Wednesday January 10 2018 15:53:59 Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>is libressl now ABI compatible with openssl? IIRC some ports moved from path
>back to port style dependencies on openssl since libressl was only 'source'
>compatible and so if you have a path-style dependency and users get things
>fro
On Wednesday March 28 2018 09:00:52 Ken Cunningham wrote:
Thanks for picking this up,
> I'd just like to mention that I've been working on this on my own for a while
> now, and have such trees in place, and available for contributions. Anyone
> interested, feel free to suggest or contribute, p
On Wednesday March 28 2018 09:44:07 Ken Cunningham wrote:
> Pegged supporting libraries, like libvpx, are harder as often in the main
> port tree the use of them on certain systems is dropped -- can't ask for
> anything different. Interested users will have to step up.
I'm not sure I follow nor
On Wednesday March 28 2018 10:52:40 Ken Cunningham wrote:
>e.gl. things like this, from ffmpeg:
>
># as of 1.6.0 libvpx only supports darwin 10 or later
But what version does ffmpeg require, how much older is the last version that
support libvpx < 1.6, and does that version even support 10.5
Hi,
As you may know clang is inherently a cross-compiler that can be told to
generate code for any of the platforms it was built to support. I used this in
the past to speed up my builds on Linux, using distcc to let my much faster Mac
do the heavy lifting. That was on 10.6 though, apparently d
On Friday May 18 2018 15:15:34 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
My previous reply went to Rainer alone, so copying it entirely below.
>
>>Apparently, you were one of the last who worked on distcc [1]. But the
>
>Indeed, I had a very vague memory of that but couldn't find any trace of it
>locally (and thu
On Saturday September 01 2018 13:24:25 Eric Gallager wrote:
>On 12/7/14, Marko Käning wrote:
>So, going through my email backlog, I came across this thread (yes my
>backlog really stretches over a year back)
Almost 4 years in fact :)
I have a hunch that my running 10.9 nowadays is comparable to
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