Re: [Gimp-developer] Single build for various OSX versions (Was: [Gimp-user] Open Gimp)

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Hi Simone,

Yes, there are incompatibilities if you build on Maverick, it will not run
on a Snow Leopard system as far as I know. I confirmed this when I built on
Mountain Lion and it promptly segfaulted on Snow Leopard.

Thanks,
Partha



On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann <simone lisanet de>wrote:

> Am 08.12.2013 um 20:18 schrieb scl <scl gplus gmail com>:
>
> > On 8.12.2013 at 8:14 PM Partha Bagchi wrote in Gimp-user:
> > > You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or
> > > later. You can download it from www.partha.com
> >
> > Hi Partha,
> >
> > I hereby confirm that your build is fine on OS X 10.6.
> > How did you manage to build GIMP in a manner that it works for
> > 10.6 _and later_?
>
> if you compile it on a SnowLeopad machine, it will run up to 10.9
>
> The only reason, why I make separate builds on my site, is that my
> development system runs Mavericks. So I do a second build on an old (and
> slow) MacBook running SnowLeopard.
>
> > As far as I know the OS X versions are often incompatible to
> > each other what makes it hard to get a build for various OS X versions.
>
> AFAICS, there are no incompatibilities as long as you compile and install
> all needed libraries inside the application bundle.
>
> Simone
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