<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>I could take a look - I don't see a real downside unless it fails all the time. I mean we build fortran by default! (Which is good, I need it, but still)</div><div><br></div><div>—Mark</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, at 8:05 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ken, I see two options for you. Which would you prefer?</div><div><br></div><div>1. Wait for someone to review my existing PR. This could take a while longer.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28687" target="_blank">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28687</a></div><div><br></div><div>2. Patch your local MacPorts install to add GNU Modula2. This is the quickest, and totally under your own control. However there are multiple steps, and a GCC rebuild will keep your Mac running for several hours. Also you may need to rebuild following any later use of port selfupdate.</div><div><br></div><div>If you decide to patch, please let me know whether you have a standard install in /opt/local, or are using a custom MacPorts install directory. Also do you have sudo privileges?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM Kenneth Wolcott <<a href="mailto:kennethwolcott@gmail.com" target="_blank">kennethwolcott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div>Hi Dave, Mark...</div><div> <br></div><div> I've again taken a look at the MacPorts Guide. I'd really appreciate</div><div> someone actually doing what you've suggested. I know it's so much</div><div> better for the fisherman to teach the beginner how to fish rather than</div><div> giving him a fish, but it's more than a little daunting for me,</div><div> without some extensive hand-holding and spoon-feeding :-)</div><div> <br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div> Ken Wolcott</div><div> <br></div><div> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM Mark E Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org" target="_blank">mark@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><div> ></div><div> > We could probably add that as a gcc variant, too, if that's all it takes.</div><div> ></div><div> > —Mark</div><div> ></div><div> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, at 12:08 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users wrote:</div><div> ></div><div> > Ken, you can get GNU Modula2 as an added component of the GCC port. This is supported since GCC 13.1. Add this simple patch to your local GCC portfile, then do a local rebuild of GCC. MacPorts does not currently host a pre-built version.</div><div> ></div><div> > -set gcc_configure_langs {c c++ objc obj-c++ lto fortran}</div><div> > +set gcc_configure_langs {c c++ objc obj-c++ lto fortran m2}</div><div> ></div><div> > This built and tested fine for me. The compiler run command is gm2. There is on-line documentation on the GCC website.</div><div> ></div><div> ></div><div> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM Kenneth Wolcott <<a href="mailto:kennethwolcott@gmail.com" target="_blank">kennethwolcott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div> ></div><div> > I'd sure like to have a Modula2 port.</div><div> ></div><div> > I see that Modula3 seems very dead...</div><div> ></div><div> > Thanks,</div><div> > Ken Wolcott</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>