Ken, the main credit goes to Chris Jones who generated the gcc15 version
after I fumbled the gcc14 one.  Also thanks to Sergey Fedorov who explained
and created the first working Darwin/Arm64 adaption for this purpose.

We will try to remember to fix that "Modular" typo on next update.


On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Dave;
>
>   I started using the Modula-2 compiler from MacPorts today.
>
>   Thank you so much for providing this port!
>
>   I have a **MINOR** nit: "Modula-2", not "Modular-2" (as seen in the
> output of "port info gcc15") :-)
>
>   Awesome!
>
> Ken Wolcott
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave;
>>
>>   This is **AWESOME** news...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via
>> macports-users <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM Saj Goonatilleke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025, at 14:25, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> >> >   I don't see a MacPorts ticket (perhaps I did not create one?)
>> >> > regarding a new port for Modula-2 from gcc.  I thought I was told
>> that
>> >> > there was a pending merge that would enable the gcc modula-2 port
>> from
>> >> > gcc...
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28687
>> >>
>> >> >   Do I need to create a MacPorts ticket (if one does not exist
>> >> > already, which I could not find) to track this port creation request?
>> >>
>> >> A MacPorts Trac ticket amounts to little more than hopes and prayers.
>> The PR from Dave is actual movement.  I don't think a ticket would help at
>> this point. :)
>> >>
>> >> If you have an account on GitHub, you can subscribe to activity on the
>> PR to be notified of any progress.  GitHub will send mail for every update
>> on the PR.
>> >>
>> >> It might really help Dave (and the reviewers) if you could test this
>> patch and report any problems on the PR.  If it works, you can merrily
>> continue using this WIP build of gcc while the PR is in review.
>> >>
>> >> Here is what you need to install ports that are yet to be published.
>> >> https://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories
>> >
>> >
>> > I am now trying to roll Modula-2 into the new basic update for GCC
>> 14.3.  Please track new PR:
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29119.
>>
>

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