Re: macOS status

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Chun Tian (binghe)" <binghe.lisp@gmail.com> writes:

> @Camm, according to a 3rd-party Xcode release web site [1], the latest
> Xcode supported on macOS Catalina is Xcode 12.4.  I think it won't hurt
> your working macOS environment to install Xcode and its "command line
> tools" if it prompts you to download and install on Xcode startup. (It's
> the major and minor macOS version updates being dangerous.)  In short
> words, to make the GCC installation from MacPorts actually work, the
> command "xcode-select --install" must be executed once with the required
> software installed, otherwise even "stdio.h" is not available to GCC.
>

xcode-select --install

yields approximately

'command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to
install updates.'

How does one check the installed version?  What is "Software Update"?

-lgcrt1.o (gprof, -pg) is missing from the MacPorts gcc13 package -- is it 
anywhere
else?

Take care,



> [1] https://xcodereleases.com
>
> Chun
>
> On 31/01/24 06:19, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:28:11 +0100,
>> Camm Maguire wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an old mac virtualbox which I never use except at the last point
>>> in gcl releases.  Nonetheless I have fired it up, and run into the
>>> problem that sed cannot put newlines into the replacement text.  You
>>> guys are surely past this point.  I know next to nothing about macosx
>>> versions and software installations -- perhaps you could point me to a
>>> hopefully painless way to upgrade this virtualbox image to the latest
>>> reasonable without destroying it.
>> 
>> The simplest way is using image that you have without any upgrade.
>> 
>> If you install MacPorts you may use my not published port to reproduce it.
>> 
>> The simplest way after instalation (without switching MacPorts to git) is:
>> 
>> 1. Replace content of
>>    
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports/lang/gcl/Portfile
>>    into
>>    
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/catap/macports-ports/gcl-devel/lang/gcl/Portfile
>> 
>> 2. Move to 
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/port
>> 
>> 3. Run portindex
>> 
>> It adds gcl-devel port which you may build as `port build gcl-devel`.
>> 
>> Portfile contains used gitcommit at line 78 and checksum at line 82.
>> 
>> The simplest way to update it is:
>> 1. Update git commit
>> 2. Run `port bump gcl-devel`
>> 
>> If you need access to a build folder you may find one as `port work 
>> gcl-devel`,
>> and output log are available as `port logfile gcl-devel`.
>> 
>> Keep in mind that after editing Portfile the work directory will be removed.
>> 
>> --
>> wbr, Kirill
>> 
>

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Camm Maguire                                        camm@maguirefamily.org
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