[Vm-dev] fixing the binary builds

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Fri Apr 28 03:32:51 UTC 2017


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>     right now at least the binary mac builds are broken because they use
>>> the latest SDK and so are unusable on anything older than 10.11.  Who holds
>>> the keys to bintray?  I'd like to try and fix this.
>>>
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>>>
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>> Are we using something like [1]....  " cc   -mmacosx-version-min=10.6
>> -Wpartial-availability"
>> and the CI might be made to fail if it sees any "introduced in macOS"
>> warnings ??
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11684302/mac-sdk-using-
>> latest-sdk-but-ensuring-backwards-compatibility-with-earlier-depl
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> I have no idea.  I don't know how the bintray builds are administered,
> where the repository is, who setup the bintray builds, etc.  I'm eager to
> talk with anyone who can enlighten me.
>
> My understanding is that what one does is install a suitable SDK.  If you
> look in build.macosXXX/common/Makefile.flags you'll see the available
> SDKs are searched for the minimum available that works for the
> configuration (10.9 for 32-bit 10.10 for 64-bit).  See the
> build.macosXXX/HowToBuild files for info on obtaining older SDKs.
>
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>> This could be useful...
>> http://www.deploymateapp.com/
>>
>> A rant that is quite Insightful...
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15091105/confusion-of-
>> how-to-make-osx-app-backward-compatible-how-to-test-them
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>> btw, what is the officially support OSX version?
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> IMO that's defined in the above files.  I've tested against the 10.9 and
> 10.10 SDKs.  I have a 10.9 machine and so try and keep the builds
> supporting 10.9.  The current binary VMs support only 10.11, and that's not
> good IMO.  What I want is to upgrade the bintray build to add the SDKs.  I
> don't know if that's possible; if the version of Xcode is compatible with
> that approach etc.  But since I can't get access to the bintray setup I
> have no idea if this is possible.
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
>
I was curious which OSX versions might be worthwhile to support.
The only useful graph I found was...   https://update.omnigroup.com/

and then I see this...
http://news.fnal.gov/2016/08/mac-os-x-mavericks-v10-9-end-life-dec-1-2016/

cheers -ben
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