In principle this should work. See https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/31505 for some relevant information. Others might have direct experience with it.
On Friday, May 5, 2023 at 11:24:07 AM UTC-7 Louis Deaett wrote: > I'm interested in Sage development (and contributing some enhancements) > and so I'd like to be able to build the current release (and ultimately the > development branch) from source. > > I am running macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) because that is what I prefer, and > because some of my hardware tops out at that version. Anyway, I've had > decent success getting open-source software up and running under MacPorts, > which has good support for 10.9 (and even earlier). > > So I've been working on building Sage from source using MacPorts. > Compilation seems to go smoothly with MacPorts LLVM tools, but I've run > into some snags whereby the build for some SPKGs seems to get gummed up > when it can't locate some of the libraries or headers provided by > MacPorts. By its nature, this hasn't felt like an insurmountable problem. > > Still, while I can keep hacking away at this, I figured I should ask: Is > there any fundamental reason why what I'm trying to do should be impossible? > > If there are major barriers in my path with this that I'm just not > encountering yet or just haven't realized, then it would (of course) help > me out to know. > > For what it's worth, if building under MacPorts is theoretically possible > but would require some additional effort on the Sage side, then that's > something I'd be willing to contribute to, if anything comes out of my own > efforts. > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > -- Louis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/80e85248-fefa-4b47-a35c-c3f526677b8en%40googlegroups.com.
