Re: MacPorts GNUstep

[Gregory Casamento]

I'm writing this using m 3G/4G connection.. :)

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Gregory Casamento
<greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Ivan,
>
> Let me know if I can help you get Gorm building.
>
> GC
> P.S. My internet connection is down, my provider is coming tomorrow to
> fix the issue so I should be able to help on Tuesday.
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In interests of sharing current work on getting MacPorts to work, my 
>> porfiles have been dropped in my public Dropbox folder:
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8559454/gnustep-macports-ivucica_1.zip
>>
>> Since I have these files in /Users/ivucica, this is what I have added in 
>> /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
>> file:///Users/ivucica/ivucicaMacPorts/
>>
>> I'd really love to hear experiences and thoughts. I'm new at creating 
>> Portfiles, and this is pretty much untested on anything except my local 
>> machine. I did not force port "gcc44" to be installed, but both gnustep-make 
>> and gnustep-base ports assume that you have it installed. Getting feedback 
>> would mean that someone else is interested in this, and that I can perhaps 
>> exchange thoughts with another interested party.
>>
>> To test, after configuring as described above:
>> sudo port install gnustep-make gnustep-base gnustep-gui system-preferences
>>
>> Here's a screenshot; SystemPreferences.app looks really lovely under OS X :)
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8559454/gnustep-macports-ivucica_1.png
>>
>> On 8. tra. 2011., at 14:47, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> after fixing gnustep-base (and making minor changes to gnustep-make to get 
>>> -base to compile) that I've talked about, compiling gnustep-gui and 
>>> system-preferences went without problems.
>>>
>>> Gorm does not compile (I did not yet investigate why, apart from missing 
>>> GSNibItem) and GNUMail can't be compiled because of problems with compiling 
>>> poppler, unrelated to GNUstep.
>>>
>>> I'm however very interested in issues with compiling Zcode. I've got all 
>>> these programs to compile by adjusting Portfile to use gcc-mp-4.4 (MacPorts 
>>> GCC, version 4.4.5). However, Zcode uses Objective-C 2.0 features such as 
>>> properties, so I went and forced use of clang from MacPorts.
>>>
>>> I'm getting this very confusing issue:
>>>
>>> The-Evil-MacBook:Zcode ivucica$ openapp ./Zcode
>>> Module (null) version 9 doesn't match runtime 8
>>> Abort trap
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how to investigate what the problem is would be appreciated. 
>>> I'd like to get this to work before moving on to upgrading all libraries to 
>>> latest releases.
>>>
>>> On 8. tra. 2011., at 11:57, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've successfully fixed gnustep-base on MacPorts. At least, it compiles 
>>>> and installs on my machine; I did not yet try to compile any code that 
>>>> uses it, nor did I try it on... cleaner machines. Before I try that, I 
>>>> will be trying to fix other components as well (gnustep-gui, primarily), 
>>>> and I hope to get in contact with someone at MacPorts to get this into 
>>>> their port index.
>>>>
>>>> I will also try to update from 1.19 (the current tarball of gnustep-base 
>>>> being pulled to compile), as well as update other components. Anything I 
>>>> should know about changes from what MacPorts uses to current releases?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ivan Vučica
>>>> via phone
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ivan Vučica
>>> ivan@vucica.net - http://ivan.vucica.net/
>>> Coming soon for iPhone, Zombie Ball - http://j.mp/zbivmail
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Ivan Vučica
>> ivan@vucica.net - http://ivan.vucica.net/
>> Coming soon for iPhone, Zombie Ball - http://j.mp/zbivmail
>>
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> Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc.
> yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
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Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc.
yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
(240)274-9630 (Cell)