GrandPerspective fails to build Mojave and older

[thomasrussellmurphy (Thomas Russell Murphy)]

Failing build status: ​https://ports.macports.org/port/GrandPerspective/details/

I can confirm the failure when it tries to rebuild locally on Mojave 10.14.6.

[thomasrussellmurphy (Thomas Russell Murphy)]

Hello, is there any progress or support on this required? This port being broken is limiting my ability to use my automated port management scripts.

[amake (Aaron Madlon-Kay)]

It looks like the issue is that GrandPerspective requires a newer OS SDK.

/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_aqua_GrandPerspective/GrandPerspective/work/GrandPerspective-3_4_2/src/control/DirectoryViewControl.m:941:27: error: use of undeclared identifier 'NSWorkspaceOpenConfiguration'; did you mean 'NSWorkspaceCopyOperation'?

As I understand it this is not "fixable" except by backporting the code or marking the port as known_fail. I am not interested in attempting the former; if someone would like to volunteer to do it then please do.

[thomasrussellmurphy (Thomas Russell Murphy)]

Would it be possible to make a version of the port from before the SDK upgrade to support older systems, then let this port stick with upstream?

[amake (Aaron Madlon-Kay)]

Yes, any interested party should feel free to do so.

[wltb]

​Upstream has a list that shows which macOS versions are supported by the various versions (under System requirements). This could be solved like the mkvtoolnix port ​does it, check ${os.major} and provide older versions for older OSes.