On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote:
> Greetings, and great to hear from you both again! > > I've posted this query several places, and I've received another comment > indicating that macports is for older machines (i.e. 'retro people' :-)) > and homebrew more modern. If macports could support both older and > newer versions, it makes sense to focus there. However, like you, my > mac development environment is stuck at Catalina for reasons we've > discussed. Everything works there for GCL, both 2.6 and 2.7, but I am > worried about support for up to date machines. I have yet to try > Kirill's remote ssh into a github action, which may be the solution, but > ideally there would be a workaround by now to get a virtualbox under > linux or the like to run a more modern macosx. Perfect would be remote > access to a modern mac. Thoughts? > How modern? I've set up a virtualbox on linux to run macosx but only for intel. I think that means 10.15 or so. If you want the new ARM chips, I don't think virtualbox can do that. I think you need to use qemu for that. I've never succeeded on getting qemu to run anything. > > Separately, you may be interested that I have updated Debian's axiom > package to build on the ANSI versions of GCL. I've incorporated support > in the Makefiles for parallel builds, which reduces build time to about > 11min. This has now migrated to testing. Tim is sending me his last > website which will be uploaded to Savannah. And once the GCL dust > settles I will update the axiom package to his last commit several years > ago. > > Take care, > > "Chun Tian (binghe)" <binghe.l...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a physical MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I only use > MacPorts instead of Fink and Homebrew, because Fink seems no more active > and Homebrew > > has poor support for older versions of macOS. > > > > I ever wanted to add a building variant “cltl1” to the Ports definition > of the “gcl” package (2.6), for building Axiom, but somehow the building > process failed in my > > machine. Then I gave up and stopped looking into GCL (and Axiom) for > several months. > > > > Having another separate package for GCL 2.7 would be the best for users > to have both 2.6 and 2.7 installed from MacPorts. > > > > Thanks for your great work. > > > > Chun > > > > Il giorno mar 25 feb 2025 alle 03:09 Camm Maguire < > c...@maguirefamily.org> ha scritto: > > > > Greetings! Its been some time since we've checked in -- are you both > > still involved with macports? > > > > I have a small commit forthcoming to restore the master build on my > > Catalina virtual box -- apparently etext is missing and needs > > get_etext(). Other than this things are looking good so far. 2.7.0 > > release is very near and I would like to put this to bed before release > > if possible. > > > > Take care, > > -- > > Camm Maguire > c...@maguirefamily.org > > > ========================================================================== > > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- > Baha'u'llah > > > > -- > Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > > -- Ray
