Greetings, and great to hear from you both again! I've posted this query several places, and I've received another comment indicating that macports is for older machines (i.e. 'retro people' :-)) and homebrew more modern. If macports could support both older and newer versions, it makes sense to focus there. However, like you, my mac development environment is stuck at Catalina for reasons we've discussed. Everything works there for GCL, both 2.6 and 2.7, but I am worried about support for up to date machines. I have yet to try Kirill's remote ssh into a github action, which may be the solution, but ideally there would be a workaround by now to get a virtualbox under linux or the like to run a more modern macosx. Perfect would be remote access to a modern mac. Thoughts?
Separately, you may be interested that I have updated Debian's axiom package to build on the ANSI versions of GCL. I've incorporated support in the Makefiles for parallel builds, which reduces build time to about 11min. This has now migrated to testing. Tim is sending me his last website which will be uploaded to Savannah. And once the GCL dust settles I will update the axiom package to his last commit several years ago. Take care, "Chun Tian (binghe)" <binghe.l...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > I have a physical MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I only use MacPorts > instead of Fink and Homebrew, because Fink seems no more active and Homebrew > has poor support for older versions of macOS. > > I ever wanted to add a building variant “cltl1” to the Ports definition of > the “gcl” package (2.6), for building Axiom, but somehow the building process > failed in my > machine. Then I gave up and stopped looking into GCL (and Axiom) for several > months. > > Having another separate package for GCL 2.7 would be the best for users to > have both 2.6 and 2.7 installed from MacPorts. > > Thanks for your great work. > > Chun > > Il giorno mar 25 feb 2025 alle 03:09 Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> ha > scritto: > > Greetings! Its been some time since we've checked in -- are you both > still involved with macports? > > I have a small commit forthcoming to restore the master build on my > Catalina virtual box -- apparently etext is missing and needs > get_etext(). Other than this things are looking good so far. 2.7.0 > release is very near and I would like to put this to bed before release > if possible. > > Take care, > -- > Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
