[Vm-dev] fixing the binary builds

[Tim Felgentreff]

The Bintray builds are uploaded from travis and appveyor. Changing the yml
files in the git repo we can choose the Xcode version.

Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> schrieb am Fr., 28. Apr. 2017, 05:33:

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> btw, what is the officially support OSX version?
>>>
>>
>> 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
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/attachments/20170428/bd6f93b6/attachment.html>