A few tidbits to make life much easier for anyone who wants to try MacPorts on a TigerVM.
Last XCode for Tiger was 2.5. Tiger’s Safari is pretty useless due to security inadequacies, but TenFourFox-G3 version runs passably well under Rosetta, and connects to current https websites. There is no Intel version. I suggest you install Macports-2.4.1 from source, rather than use the installer for 2.3.3 that is on the website. To get past the security hiccups with MacPorts, one tested method is to install a “bootstrap” copy of Macports into something like /opt/bootstrap, to install curl into. The command to configure that from the source directory is ./configure —prefix=/opt/bootstrap —with-applications-dir=/opt/bootstrap/Applications Once that is done, install curl into that sudo /opt/bootstrap/bin/port -v install curl Then install your working macports copy from source again, into the default location, referencing the curl in /opt/bootstrap to give you a modern ssl setup. The command to configure that from the source directory is ./configure —with-curlprex=/opt/bootstrap/ Set up your MacPorts path as per usual, and then you’re done, and ready to timewarp back to 2004. K > On Apr 22, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I know some of you are interested in such things, at times… debugging > MacPorts, trying out a port, etc. > > A Tiger VM more or less works, with a few touchy parts that may or may not > improve over time, on the current version of VirtualBox. > > <https://github.com/ranma42/TigerOnVBox > <https://github.com/ranma42/TigerOnVBox>> > > I find the hard disk driver to be a bit flaky and require a few resets to get > it to work, but it does work, in the end. > > Ken
