Re: Why did autoconf deps change? Leads to xrender and pango problems?

On 8/27/06, Eric Albert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:24 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why MacPorts / DarwinPorts 1.3.2 can not revert
> > back to
> > its state on 1 August 2006? At that time I had no problem building
> > xrender
> > (and pango for that matter) on both PowerPC but had not tried at
> > that time
> > on Intel hardware. However, earlier in the year I was fooling
> > around with DP
> > (I think it was version 1.2.1) on Intel but building to an HFS disc
> > volume.
> > The file system does not matter however (as I have proven by
> > building tons
> > of ports on UFS on PowerPC hardware).
>
> That UFS works fine for you on PowerPC doesn't mean that it'll work fine
> for you on Intel. :)  File systems have lots of endianness concerns, and I
> think it's safe to say that UFS on Intel has received quite a lot less
> testing than UFS on PowerPC did.  Keep in mind that UFS was once a fully
> supported file system on PowerPC, but it was
> deprecated (as Jordan mentioned) before Mac OS X was released on Intel.


Eric thank you very much for your cordial and helpful reply. Like I
mentioned in my reply to Mark Duling, I had no clue that UFS was being
deprecated. No one had ever mentioned it on this mailing list before had
they? I searched the archives and didn't see it mentioned historically.
Also, I didn't see a knowledge base article from Apple explicitly stating
not to use UFS on Intel Macs. Maybe I "missed the memo" so-to-speak and if
so I apologize for any angst I may have caused. But sometimes building a
great community means asking challenging questions and thinking for oneself
rather than letting others do the thinking for oneself. I'm not out to ask
tough questions just for the sake of doing so (I have a busy life just like
everyone else here does).

As Emmanuel mentioned, it would be interesting to see if HFSX volumes could
be mounted to operating systems besides Mac OS X such as Ubuntu or some
other *BSD flavor. The reason I mention this is that it would be really
sweet to be able to share data on disc volumes across different OS platforms
since as I mentioned we live in a world that is quite heterogeneous in terms
of OS platforms and disc volumes really ought not to be tied to one OS
platform. With the awesome Mac Intel machines, as Apple has acknowledged
with Boot Camp and as we are seeing options for running VM environments with
apps such as Parallels and VMware announcing Workstation coming to Mac Intel
soon, the world of many OS platforms will soon open up on Apple hardware.
This to me is an exciting moment for Apple and its constellation of open
source communities including Darwin Ports!

Best regards,

T.


-Eric