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
