Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#50380 closed defect (wontfix)

midori: current requisites won't build on PPC Tiger

Reported by: asiganael@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.4
Keywords: tiger Cc: dbevans (David B. Evans), jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)
Port: midori

Description

I know Tiger is very old, but I hoped that midori, being "lightweight", would allow to browse modern webpages on PPC Tiger. Websites designed with new standards no longer work -or have issues- with the available versions of Safari and Firefox for Tiger. Even StackExchange has serious issues with such old browser versions.

Trying to build on Tiger, and after *most* requisites were successfully installed, I hit a problem in webkit-gtk-2.0 which seems to have a difficult or impossible solution. The details and the logs are in this other ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50352

Would it be possible to substitute webkit-gtk-2.0 with other webkit package that can be built on Tiger (if it exists) ?

Thanks!

Change History (2)

comment:1 in reply to:  description Changed 9 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Cc: devans@… jeremyhu@… added

Would it be possible to substitute webkit-gtk-2.0 with other webkit package that can be built on Tiger (if it exists) ?

Not that I know of. webkit-gtk-2.0 is already an outdated legacy package that is required to build on platforms that don't support the use of libc++ by default (OS X 10.8 and earlier). Most current GNOME applications that depend on webkit require either webkit-gtk or webkit2-gtk so these earlier platforms are restricted to older versions (typically GNOME 3.8 or so) that support the older API. I don't know of any version of webkit-gtk that ever built on your platform. Sorry.

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
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