FYI I have had good luck with opencore legacy patcher on several machines. A macbookpro 9,2 can run the current Ventura, for example, very nicely (upgraded to 16GB Ram).
Some machines don't fare as well -- a macbookpro 9,1 I tried to upgrade struggles. K On 2023-04-18, at 11:17 AM, Eldrid Rensburg wrote: > Some "modern" builds can't build on older MBP arch. I have a similar MBP with > HS - where e.g. homebrew requires a newer XCode that in turn requires a newer > macOS (with newer hardware - Apple's money-making tactics will continue with > the newer MBPs). My work client projects required a newer setup - but I still > keep the old MBP HS as a workhorse for other stuff. > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, 22:59 Dave Horsfall, <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: > Early MacBook Pro (13", mid 2010), High Sierra 10.13.6 (as far as it will > go). > > When doing my weekly port upgrade, it bombs out with: > > ---> Building glib2 > Error: Failed to build glib2: command execution failed > Error: See > /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_glib2/glib2/main.log > for details. > > I see a lot of warnings in main.log such as: > > :info:build ld: warning: The i386 architecture is deprecated for macOS > (remove from the Xcode build setting: ARCHS) > > Is this some insidious attempt by Cupertino to force me to buy an M series? > > Compressed main.log attached. > > -- Dave
