Re: [MacPorts-announce] MacPorts 2.6.4 has been released

2020-11-29 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020, Joshua Root wrote: The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.6.4. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog [1] for the list of changes. Which reminds me: OK on latest (and last) Sierra, on an early MacBook Pro (13", m

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Ken Cunningham
> > Perhaps I can upgrade it, but that would be a soldering project. > > Aha! That explains it. I was not aware that such machines existed. I > thought the first Intel Minis had 2 slots that could take 1GB DIMMs. > > -- > Bill Cole Bill, you may be correct! My last bit of internet sleuthing agr

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Nov 2020, at 16:11, Ken Cunningham wrote: I have a MacMini 1,1 with 1GB of Ram that runs either MacOS X 10.4 or 10.5. It doesn’t have enough ram to run 10.6. Perhaps I can upgrade it, but that would be a soldering project. I use it to build TenFourFox for Intel which I upload to the TenF

Re: manually upgrade some ICU dependencies - recursion between libsxslt and vala

2020-11-29 Thread Ken Cunningham
> $ xsltproc dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libicui18n.65.dylib > Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/xsltproc Reason: image not found Trace/BPT > trap This shows that icu was upgraded to version 67, but that port is still linked against 65. Usually a rev-bump would have taken care of t

manually upgrade some ICU dependencies - recursion between libsxslt and vala

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, I was about to fail a bug, ascii doc doesn't build for me, nor does vala. I get this issue, e.g. :info:build a2x: ERROR: "xsltproc" --stringparam callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphics 0 "/opt/local/var/macports/

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Ken Cunningham
> Can you explain any practical justification for supporting Leopard on > Intel? > > I'm not suggesting that it's in any way "wrong" but I just can't see > where the utility for such machines is. I'm still making use of a 2006 > Core Duo iMac which is 10.6/i386, so I'm familiar with the fact t

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Nov 2020, at 6:55, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote: This is all on 10.5/i386 - then I already started my luck on PPC, then 10.6/universal - and last 10.5/x86_64 Can you explain any practical justification for supporting Leopard on Intel? I'm not suggesting that it's in any w

Re: Fix for postfix not launching reliably at boot time

2020-11-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Nov 2020, at 6:02, Gerben Wierda via macports-users wrote: I think I shared this before, but I’m not certain so I am doing so now (again). The MacPorts postfix master process will not launch reliably at boot if it is set up with ‘port load postfix’. The reason for the unreliable boot i

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Ken Cunningham
I have a patch for gcc that forces it to use the old assembler ever if clang-5.0 is installed. I haven't pushed it yet, but I can send it to you if you like. The binaries server I put up basically _is_ an Intel builder...covers 10.4 & 10.5 PPC and Intel. Use it if you want. Glad you're well! B

Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 29, 2020, at 06:24, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > On 2020-11-17 00:30:33 + Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Nov 16, 2020, at 17:58, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >>> Here were are in the situation that if, for some upstream reason, libxml2 >>> stops compiling with gcc 4.2, the user has no work

Re: failure to link most programs on Leopard

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, On 2020-11-14 22:29:52 + Ken Cunningham wrote: > > >> On Nov 14, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> You can disable Clang's integrated assembler with -no-integrated-as, >> if needed. I've had to use it several times because Clang cannot >> consume the same programs as GCC

Re: failure to link most programs on Leopard

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi Ken! On 2020-11-14 20:56:20 + Ken Cunningham wrote: > One last thing… > > this noise: > > :485:11: warning: section "__textcoal_nt" is deprecated > .section __TEXT,__textcoal_nt,coalesced,pure_instructions > ^ ~ > :485:11: note: change secti

Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, On 2020-11-17 00:30:33 + Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 16, 2020, at 17:58, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Here were are in the situation that if, for some upstream reason, libxml2 stops compiling with gcc 4.2, the user has no workaround and is stuck in an endless dependency. If such

Re: failure to link most programs on Leopard

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, On 2020-11-14 20:38:43 + Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Nov 14, 2020, at 14:31, Ken Cunningham wrote: > >> I’m not positive, but I think at one point in time macports base added >> this flag to most or all builds, but that went by the wayside when most >> builds became 64bit intel. > > I

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi Ken, On 2020-11-18 17:07:43 + Ken Cunningham wrote: Riccardo et al, I have finished rebuilding all the common compilers for Leopard Intel i386, up to clang-9.0. It is apparently possible now to build up to gcc-10 on Tiger and up, and I have built some of these, but MacPorts ha

Re: failure to link most programs on Leopard

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, after some days with the "head under water" I had time to resume work on MacPorts upgrades. I restarted and the error I pasted below happened for me e.g. in gcc 48 and gcc6 upgrade. On 2020-11-14 20:31:40 + Ken Cunningham wrote: >> ld: illegal text-relocation to '___cpu_indicator_i

Fix for postfix not launching reliably at boot time

2020-11-29 Thread Gerben Wierda via macports-users
I think I shared this before, but I’m not certain so I am doing so now (again). The MacPorts postfix master process will not launch reliably at boot if it is set up with ‘port load postfix’. The reason for the unreliable boot is that macOS during boot for about 60 seconds or so claims port 25 (a