Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:51 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
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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