Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-26 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Aug 2019, at 16:02, Bill Cole wrote: On 24 Aug 2019, at 1:22, Joshua Root wrote: It's possible that the problem will go away if you uninstall clang-3.4 and llvm-3.4. The bootstrap ports are only needed as dependencies of those, and you shouldn't need clang-3.4 any more once you've boots

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-24 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Aug 2019, at 1:22, Joshua Root wrote: It's possible that the problem will go away if you uninstall clang-3.4 and llvm-3.4. The bootstrap ports are only needed as dependencies of those, and you shouldn't need clang-3.4 any more once you've bootstrapped something newer. I tried variations

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Joshua Root
> On 23 Aug 2019, at 21:00, Joshua Root wrote: > >> The reason for the *-bootstrap ports is that 10.6 doesn't come with >> libc++. So you need to be able to build a compiler capable of building >> libc++, while only using the system's libstdc++. That compiler is >> clang-3.4, and it depends on a n

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Aug 2019, at 21:00, Joshua Root wrote: Bill Cole wrote: So it's that time of the month: time for a port {reclaim,selfupdate,upgrade outdated} cycle on my Snow Leopard machine, which has a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSystems" setup. Or at least, it HAD a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSy

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:58, Bill Cole wrote: > I'm having apparently initial success from doing a 'port -n upgrade outdated' > but that makes me a bit nervous... It should make you nervous. You probably shouldn't run that unless you know exactly why each port is outdated and what rebuilding i

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Ken Cunningham
Unfortunately, everything on my 10.6.8 / libc++ system updated to the current ports tree without any trouble (except OpenBLAS, which is a different issue). I already had clang-8.0 installed (as I fixed it for 10.6.8 in the first place), and so I didn't have to bootstrap anything. Maybe that is w

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Joshua Root
Bill Cole wrote: > So it's that time of the month: time for a port > {reclaim,selfupdate,upgrade outdated} cycle on my Snow Leopard machine, > which has a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSystems" setup. > > Or at least, it HAD a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSystems" setup. Now, > upgrades are broke

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Ken Cunningham
Things are in flux with this, and I’ve been too busy to work it all through myself so far. I’ll probably do it this weekend, so if you can hold off updates until next week we should be further ahead then. Unless you can help Ken Sent from my iPhone

Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

2019-08-23 Thread Bill Cole
So it's that time of the month: time for a port {reclaim,selfupdate,upgrade outdated} cycle on my Snow Leopard machine, which has a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSystems" setup. Or at least, it HAD a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSystems" setup. Now, upgrades are broken because ultimately everyt