<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="">Our glib2 is very outdated, and a number of software projects cannot be updated until it is modernized.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a 4000-PR-old PR to update it here <a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5808" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5808</a> from Lord-Kamina who has not been around much lately.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The PR was outdated and needed rebasing, amongst other things.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The major holdup has been the move to meson, which until yesterday did not allow universal builds on BigSur, and other issues.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been working on glib2 today, and it builds -universal at present.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The universal builds, I think, are almost there — hopefully fixable with simple tweak to the portfile to accommodate multiple build folders needing a header copied in (right now the Portfile only expects one build folder). I was thinking to work on that tomorrow unless someone beats me to it before then.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BUT — glib2 is a core port. Many other ports rely on it. Bootstrapping from older systems relies on it, etc, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I thought I would ask if any interested parties might kick the tires and see what we might need to do to get this beast committed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>