Re: OSX 10.6 support

Subject: Re: OSX 10.6 support

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:14:59 -0700

To: David Bremner

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Justin Pitts


I will see if I can get that info for you, David.

This isn't a time-sensitive issue, at least for me. I'm on OSX 10.8, and I
have no trouble installing 0.16.


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:07 AM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> Justin Pitts <justinpitts@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Recently, I attempted to update the OSX Homebrew package manager to
> notmuch
> > 0.16. This version compiles without issue on my system, which is running
> > OSX 10.8.
> >
> > I was informed by one of the Homebrew maintainers that 0.16 fails to
> > compile as-is on OSX 10.6 :
> > https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/22731#issuecomment-24896941
> >
> > The options here are
> > 1. Leave homebrew's version of notmuch at 0.15.2
> > 2. Update notmuch there to 0.16, with the caveat that it will not build
> on
> > OSX 10.6
> > 3. Update notmuch to 0.16, along with necessary changes to make it build
> on
> > OSX 10.6
>
> Well, I'd say it's up to you guys what you want to do; I'd reccomend
> against 1 just in case there are future security fixes.
>
> If you want help debugging why it doesn't work on a particular version
> of MacOS, then I'd suggest sending (a link to) a complete build log and
> all of the versions of the relevant tools and packages to the list. I
> still can't promise anything, but maybe somebody will spot what's going
> wrong.
>
> Unfortunately we don't have any MacOS users very involved with notmuch
> development, so these issues tend to be a bit slow to resolve.
>
> d
>
>

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