why i stopped picking at open sores.

[twoeleven]

i wanted to play with fracplanets, a simple fractal landscape generator, available as open sores. it seemed like the sort of thing that ought to port smoothly (there was a mac port once... ppc only). fracplanets relies on the qt framework. fine, fine: i picked up the libraries and their mutant make (qmake). qmake under mac o/s produces an xcode project (only; it says -unix is deprecated, and it doesn't do anything)... which xcode says is broken. typical.

edit: better and better: the documentation for qmake is out of date and the flag i was looking for is -spec. which reveals that the distribution tarball is missing a directory.