Zenity @3.24.0 does not build on Mac OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard, because jack is needed but cannot be downloaded

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Why does a tool for opening text boxes need an audio jack?

[gnw3]

Zenity is a Gnome application so if built with webkitgtk (e.g., on libc++ systems) depends on jack via webkit2-gtk and gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good:

$ port dependents jack gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good webkit2-gtk
gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good depends on jack
webkit2-gtk depends on gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good
yelp depends on webkit2-gtk
zenity depends on webkit2-gtk

Zenity can be built (e.g., "works for me") without webkitgtk via a configure option which currently is set to --disable-webkitgtk but gets changed to --enable-webkitgtk on libc++ systems. I suppose there could be a -webkitgtk variant, but then you need to deal with +webkitgtk on non libc++ systemt -- seems a bit complex for the variants mechanism in macports.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Thanks, I realised that now zenity needs webkit2-gtk (with a lot of extra packages). And it's only needed by metacity. So the best solution is to remove these two.

Case closed (for me).

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

In 93d2325903fb72da7e60ebaa37154fbe1753f097/macports-ports (master):

gstreamer*-gst-plugins-good: make jack plugin optional

Jack fails to build on 10.6 and earlier.

Closes #54528