Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > I maintain the OpenJDK ports (e.g. openjdk25) which require the Metal > toolchain to be present to build. Since macOS 26, the Metal metaltoolchain is > no longer bundled in Xcode, but needs to be installed separately via > 'xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain’ (and there are some additional > issues with it, see > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/TahoeProblems#MetaltoolchainisnolongerbundledinXcode). > > I believe the Metal toolchain is installed on the buildbots, but it’s not > installed on the macOS 26 version of our GitHub builders, which is why this > job fails: > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/actions/runs/21189843722/job/60953580784 > > Would it be possible and a good idea to add the Metal toolchain to the GitHub > macOS 26 builders? If so, could someone make this happen?
Or another idea: could it make more sense to allow a Portfile to specify that it requires the Metal toolchain and have MacPorts it install when necessary? Nils.
