Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-13 Thread xplora
I forgot to ad, the reason, at a unix level, the Finder alias just just another boring file, not the intended alias. This is similar to how Windows shortcuts look on Macs, where they come through as a .lnk file that the Mac doesn’t understand. -- Richard Smith xpl...@wak.co.nz > On

2.7.1 -> 2.7.2 OK

2022-03-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
Smooth as the proverbial baby's bottom on an oldish MacBook Pro, High Sierra 10.13.6; well done, all. I'm quite taken by the progress bar on "cmake"; it keeps changing its mind, just like a MacOS upgrade does :-) -- Dave

Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-13 Thread xplora
Is it a Mac Alias, or a unix ln ? (i.e. the former is created with a drag-n-drop of the App holding down the Command & Option keys, while the former is created with the command ln -s /path/to/app lnfile, and that is a lowercase L, not an uppercase i). MacPorts will work better with the latter

Re: 2.7.1 -> 2.7.2 OK

2022-03-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
(resending from correct address) On Mar 13, 2022, at 16:34, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Smooth as the proverbial baby's bottom on an oldish MacBook Pro, High > Sierra 10.13.6; well done, all. > > I'm quite taken by the progress bar on "cmake"; it keeps changing its > mind, just like a MacOS

Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-13 Thread James Secan
I do have the full Xcode package installed (8.2.1) on the El Capitan system, although I have it as an alias in the Applications directory (on a smallish SSD) linking to the actual Xcode files on an internal HD because it requires a lot of disk real estate and I never use Xcode. Would that

Re: code signing and the future of MacPorts

2022-03-13 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, here is an older concept from 2016 I had written for gdb/lldb as Apple began to require code-signing for debuggers. This applies to more actions by now, but with the same requirements. The replies are also relevant and discuss alternatives.