Re: Bug 587843 – Macintosh OSX Quartz Build & Integration Patches

[John Ralls]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Charles Day wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Phil Longstaff  
> <plongstaff at rogers.com>wrote:
>
>> I don't know or use Mac OSX.  Can someone who does look over the
>> attachments and tell me whether they are OK to apply to trunk for  
>> 2.3.3?
>>
>
> I guess you are talking about bug 587843:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587843
>
> I build GnuCash with configure/make/make install at the command  
> line, and
> against libraries built with MacPorts. So I could apply the patches  
> here and
> make sure that it at least doesn't break my build.
>
> To really test the patches I assume I would have to switch from  
> MacPorts to
> jhbuild so I can build GTK-OSX. I might try that if I can figure out  
> how to
> keep my MacPorts build environment at the same time, at least until  
> I can
> fully switch to jhbuild at a more convenient time. I would like, for  
> the
> moment, to be able to continue working on register bugs without  
> worrying
> about a learning curve for a different build tool.
>
> I don't use fink but maybe Dave or someone else can test that, even  
> if only
> to make sure the build doesn't break.

Testing to make sure it doesn't break MacPorts & Fink is a good idea.  
I did check them on a Linux VM to make sure I hadn't broken anything  
(I had, but I fixed it before making the patches.)

If you (or anyone) who has one or the other installed wants to try a  
gtk-osx build, I think making a new user account with a clean  
environment (i.e., no trace of MacPorts or Fink in any path) is  
probably the safest, though I'll admit I haven't tried it. I do get  
support questions from users pretty often who've had trouble because  
they didn't completely purge MacPorts or Fink from their systems and  
jhbuild found the wrong macros or pkg-config or something and went  
astray.

Regards,
John Ralls