Port for ldx3 ?

[rudloff@…]

I am planning to work on a port for TenFourfox (​http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/) but to build it on Tiger, we need the Xcode 3 linker backported to 10.4 (​http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/downloads/detail?name=ldx3.zip). So I have created a simple port for it, but I am not sure this is the better way to distribute it as it is available only as a binary.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

MacPorts will issue an error if you attempt to install that on anything other than Darwin 8. It would be better to cut it off early, with a pre-fetch block that displays a friendly error message, on OS X versions other than 8.

But I'm curious why a port for tenfourfox is needed at all. They distribute binaries; can't you just install them from their web site? That's what I do... Building something as huge as a browser is difficult business; our firefox ports for example seem to be constantly breaking.

[fang@…]

If you're interested, feel free to see what I did to package tenfourfox for fink, I'm happy to share the work. I didn't bother packaging ldx3 separately, just listed it as another 'source'. As of today, I've got versions 4-6,8-11 in our stable tree (10.4 and 10.4-EOL), and all versions run smoothly so far.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I believe the ld64 port works on Tiger. Is this still needed in light of that?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

No response; assuming this is not needed as per comment:3.