Greetings! I've found the catalina pkg installer for macports. Is everything installed under /opt? Are all existing programs, perhaps once installed via 'xcode', unaffected? Any PATH setup requirements?
Take care, Kirill A. Korinsky <kir...@korins.ky> writes: > 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 > > > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
