On Jan 17, 2021, at 10:49, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> This kind of problem is the reason why I keep our Buildbot machines on a
>> version of Xcode and command line tools that contains the SDK version
>> matching the OS version.
> The downside is all the newer software that should but won’t build on that
> system, and the fact that almost 100% of users are using the newer Xcode on
> their systems, so the buildbot doesn’t match MacPort’s users. Reproducible
> builds, all that.
>
> I obviously know you quite sticky on this point, but…
>
>
> You *could* install the newer Xcode and the older system-matching SDK and get
> the best of all worlds.
Yes but that configuration would match virtually no user systems.
For those situations where we need a specific SDK that Xcode or CLT doesn't
provide, I would rather use my MacOSX.sdk port that has not yet been committed,
rather than put nonstandard SDKs on the build machine manually.
