Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-13 Thread Ken Cunningham
> It is a delicate siuation, with Ken we were supposing to make a static > version or link statically, so that an upgrade does not "turn down" > all MacPort compilers. > Ideally the compiler should have as few fragile deps as possible. Static linking in the compiler deps might help us get to

Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, On 2020-11-08 08:18:22 +0100 Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 7, 2020, at 12:46, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I need to rebuild a package which is not working due to a dependency upgrde. revdep "catches" it but revdep fails to build it because it uses the wrong compiler and I need to force

macOS version number reporting on Big Sur

2020-11-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
This looks interesting, esp. for those who need to do tests either in scripts or programs. Those who don't might still want to be aware that there might be RARE cases of something thinking it's on 10.0, and failing since that's way too old.

Re: Any reason not to update to Xcode 12.2 on Catalina?

2020-11-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 12, 2020, at 23:08, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > One or two times past, an Xcode version around the time of a new OS release > has been a problem on the older OS. > > I don't see anything likely to be that way with Xcode 12.2 (and MacPorts) on > Catalina, but I'm looking for