quickascii build failure: Jam is deprecated and has been removed

[ryandesign@…]

quickascii doesn't build on Snow Leopard. There are a lot of warnings

2009-09-03 11:18:13.247 xcodebuild[50606:60f] WARNING: Failed to load plugin at: /Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/XdesignCompilerPlugin.xcplugin, skipping.  Could not load bundle.

followed by the fatal error

Jam is deprecated and has been removed; targets that use Jam must be upgraded to native targets. For more information on doing this, consult the Xcode documentation.

[ryandesign@…]

I filed a bug with the developers ​here.

[toby@…]

r56937

[snc@…]

Is there an advantage to using pre-configure over pre-fetch?

[ryandesign@…]

Replying to snc@…:

Is there an advantage to using pre-configure over pre-fetch?

No; there is an advantage to using pre-fetch, namely that the distfile is not fetched unnecessarily.

Revised the message in r56938 using the strategy I previously employed in graphviz-gui.

These commits don't fix the problem, they just tells the user the port doesn't work on 10.6 or later. Upstream has not updated this software in almost seven years so I'm not holding my breath for a new version to fix this issue. But if they do release one, we can change the port then.

[ryandesign@…]

Actually fixed in r78857, by ignoring the old Xcode project, and writing our own Makefile.