SDL2 for older MacOS X

[Forest Expertise]

Of the ports which depend on libsdl2_mixer, blobwars, starfighter, and gdash build but do not launch. lpairs2 launches and the freezes (no sound). Freeciv is the success story - it builds and appears functional with sound. My guess is that this indicates Tiger and the outdated libsdl2_mixer version are not the problem. Perhaps being big endian or PowerPC are problems. If anyone wants to test any of the four ports that build but don't work on Leopard or Snow Leopard PPC, it would be an interesting test for whether the ports don't support PPC, or if this is an outdated version or Tiger issue.

 

[barracuda156]

Of the ports which depend on libsdl2_mixer, blobwars, starfighter, and gdash build but do not launch. lpairs2 launches and the freezes (no sound). Freeciv is the success story - it builds and appears functional with sound. My guess is that this indicates Tiger and the outdated libsdl2_mixer version are not the problem. Perhaps being big endian or PowerPC are problems. If anyone wants to test any of the four ports that build but don't work on Leopard or Snow Leopard PPC, it would be an interesting test for whether the ports don't support PPC, or if this is an outdated version or Tiger issue.

Check if failing ones need joystick. Certainly some of SDL deps in MacPorts do, and those fail on launch.