<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It is rather difficult to install libcurl with all it’s dependencies and certificates and keep it up to date with current security outside of Macports.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suggest you use the method outlined in the referenced ticket <<a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516</a>> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">it takes 10 minutes or so to install a MacPorts setup into /opt/bootstrap, like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">./configure —prefix=/opt/bootstrap —with-applications-dir=/opt/bootstrap/Applications —without-startupitems</div><div class="">make && sudo make install</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and install curl on that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/opt/bootstrap/bin/port -v sync</div><div class="">/opt/bootstrap/bin/port -v -N install curl</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then install Macports into /opt/local as usual, referencing that curlprefix:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">./configure —with-curlprefix=/opt/bootstrap</div><div class="">make && sudo make install</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">then setup your PATH to include /opt/local/bin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and away you go. No more downloading issues.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have done this on every system I own 10.4 to 10.9 for years now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Keep your wits about you when updating the bootstrap installation. You have to unset your PATH from /opt/local/bin first or you can call the wrong setup apps.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Never run “sudo port selfupdate”. Only run “sudo port -v sync” or you risk blowing your installation apart when MacPorts tries to selfupdate itself. Most of the install options are lost with every update, so you have to redo them each time manually.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When you want to upgrade MacPorts, you have to do it manually from source, first /opt/bootstrap, then update the ports in that, and then /opt/local, and update the ports in that.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At some point, we will have trouble installing a new MacPorts installation into /opt/bootstrap I suspect, as getting bootstrapped will be difficult or tricky eventually.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Better off to do it now, I’d say, while it still works easily.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre class="wiki" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); box-shadow: rgb(238, 238, 238) 0px 0px 1em; border-top-left-radius: 0.3em; border-top-right-radius: 0.3em; border-bottom-right-radius: 0.3em; border-bottom-left-radius: 0.3em; margin: 1em 1.75em; padding: 0.25em; overflow: auto; clear: right; font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></pre><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2019, at 10:48 PM, Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org" class="">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2019-1-15 17:18 , iEFdev wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">When I run “port fetch” - all I see is port running tclsh5.8... no curl.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It uses libcurl.<br class=""><br class="">- Josh<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>