MacPorts For 10.15 Catalina

[Chris Jones]

When migrating to a new OS, beta or otherwise, you *always* have to 
reinstall base and all ports. See

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration

so, in short, no. You have to reinstall.

On 26/09/2019 2:41 pm, Shichao Dou wrote:
> Thank you very much for your answer.
> Very regret
> I installed MacPorts using MacPorts-2.6.0-10.14-Mojave.pkg
> Is there any way to work on 10.15 without removing old MacPorts 
> (Installed using MacPorts-2.6.0-10.14-Mojave.pkg) ?
> Or do I have to uninstall and recompile the installation ?
> 
>> 2019年9月26日 下午9:26，Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org 
>> <mailto:mojca at macports.org>> 写道：
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 15:16, Shichao Dou wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a question to ask. I upgraded macOS to 10.15 Catalina Beta, 
>>> but I found that my MacPorts were not working.
>>>
>>> Want to know if there is a 10.15 Catalina update plan? When will it 
>>> be released?
>>
>> MacPorts should work on 10.15 if you compile and install the macports
>> base from source:
>> https://www.macports.org/install.php#source
>>
>> Because of the NDA we are not allowed to provide binaries, but the
>> sources should work, and the new binaries are expected very soon after
>> the release gets out of beta phase.
>>
>> You should of course expect some problems here and there (in
>> particular the gcc compiler no longer works out of the box with the
>> release of the new xcode version), mostly because various software
>> authors have probably not yet adapted their source code to the
>> potentially stricter compiler, changes of the API in the new OS
>> release etc.
>>
>> Mojca
>