<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">A few tidbits to make life much easier for anyone who wants to try MacPorts on a TigerVM.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last XCode for Tiger was 2.5.</div><div class="">Tiger’s Safari is pretty useless due to security inadequacies, but TenFourFox-G3 version runs passably well under Rosetta, and connects to current https websites. There is no Intel version.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suggest you install Macports-2.4.1 from source, rather than use the installer for 2.3.3 that is on the website.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To get past the security hiccups with MacPorts, one tested method is to install a “bootstrap” copy of Macports into something like /opt/bootstrap, to install curl into.</div><div class="">The command to configure that from the source directory is</div><div class="">./configure —prefix=/opt/bootstrap —with-applications-dir=/opt/bootstrap/Applications</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once that is done, install curl into that</div><div class="">sudo /opt/bootstrap/bin/port -v install curl</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then install your working macports copy from source again, into the default location, referencing the curl in /opt/bootstrap to give you a modern ssl setup.</div><div class=""><div class="">The command to configure that from the source directory is</div><div class="">./configure —with-curlprex=/opt/bootstrap/</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Set up your MacPorts path as per usual, and then you’re done, and ready to timewarp back to 2004.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">K</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 22, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I know some of you are interested in such things, at times… debugging MacPorts, trying out a port, etc.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A Tiger VM more or less works, with a few touchy parts that may or may not improve over time, on the current version of VirtualBox.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><<a href="https://github.com/ranma42/TigerOnVBox" class="">https://github.com/ranma42/TigerOnVBox</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I find the hard disk driver to be a bit flaky and require a few resets to get it to work, but it does work, in the end.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>