Re: Does MacPorts depend on Spotlight?

2021-11-21 Thread Sriranga Veeraraghavan
Hi Dave, I’ve often wondered how to find out about the functionality of all the different command line programs in MacOSX. The best list I’ve come across is: https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/about/ There is also a interesting Git project that shows the differences in man

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread Ken Cunningham
Yeah, I guess that website name is a little bit too close to "emasculation" for my memory to bring it forward :> K > On Nov 21, 2021, at 9:40 AM, chilli.names...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think you meant > > https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7361 >

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread chilli.names...@gmail.com
> I recently downloaded a prebuilt version of both basiliskii and sheepshaver > from the 'macemulation' website that is 64bit and runs on BigSur, and that > works well too. I think you meant https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7361 https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread Ken Cunningham
When I last updated the basiliskii and sheepshaver ports I was still fairly new to macports and took them on as a challenge. They had some interesting wrinkles I was looking to understand. At that time, both of them did not run well when built as 64-bit versions; the JIT code, that really mak

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread chilli.names...@gmail.com
Interesting idea to attempt coax Mojave to build for 32-bit. However, I find when I stray from conventional installations to custom, even when I take detailed notes, over time I forget what I did, and it becomes an issue when recreating an installation. I'm not sure "need" is accurate, but I'd

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 21, 2021, at 10:08, Chilli wrote: > The reason I chose Mojave was because it is the last macOS to support running > 32-bit applications, but obviously my research was not deep enough. Since it > can not build 32-bit applications... looks like I'll be backing up the Mojave > install and r

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread chilli.names...@gmail.com
Thanks Ryan, that's answered everything. The reason I chose Mojave was because it is the last macOS to support running 32-bit applications, but obviously my research was not deep enough. Since it can not build 32-bit applications... looks like I'll be backing up the Mojave install and replacin

Re: multi-ask

2021-11-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 20, 2021, at 12:19, Chilli wrote: > > Hi mailing list participants. > > I'm going to introduce several topics. At your choice, leisure and > convenience, a response to any is appreciated. > > 1) First of all, as a user, I am tremendously grateful to all the macports > developers. MacP