<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello Murray,<div><br></div><div>How are you? As mentioned in the previous posts on this list, please see Apple’s comments on the new linker issue:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-15-release-notes#Linking"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-15-release-notes#Linking" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" width="300" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="developer-og.jpg" src="cid:08DD3BB9-B980-4223-A70F-CE78CC2055A6"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-15-release-notes#Linking" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Xcode 15 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-15-release-notes#Linking" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">developer.apple.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>For now, use Xcode 15 and its command line tools and try to enforce the old linker by defining the following environment variables:</div><div><div><br></div><div> export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12</div><div> export OTHER_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-ld_classic</div></div><div><br></div><div>You may place them into your ~/.profile file. I hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>—</div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Maxim</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 2 Oct 2023, at 15:29, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">As reported at <a href="http://grac.macports.org/">grac.macports.org</a>, a number of ports will no longer install because configure fails with Xcode 15, which apparently has a linker issues.<div><br></div><div>Some have suggested reverting to Xcode 14.3.1, to work around those issues.</div><div><br></div><div>But under macOS Sonoma, that does not seem to be an option: After replacing Xcode 15 with Xcode 14.3.1, and similarly for the command-line tools, if I open Xcode 14.3.1, I get an error that this version of Xcode will not work with the OS (Sonoma).</div><div><br></div><div>Is there some other work-around?</div><div><br><div>
<div>---<br>Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>murrayeisenberg@gmail.com<br>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br>503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br>Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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