what say we just use MacOSX.sdk preferentially on BigSur and up?

[Michael Dickens]

+1 from me to use just MacOSX.sdk !

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> So I will make another push for this, before we get hundreds of ports 
> built with incorrect burned-in SDKs that make a total mess for us to 
> manage.
> 
> 
> What is different now is that almost all current configure software 
> does a test-compile and run rather than look for a specific header or 
> function to be defined, and if they don’t, they will need to.
> 
> 
> The rapidly-changing SDK names make anything other than this a total mess.
> 
> IMHO, it is not a good idea, or reasonable, to expect every single 
> piece of software (perl, python, ruby, gcc, etc, etc) to come up with 
> their own, probably broken method of sorting this out.
> 
> All current MacOS users are using an Xcode that defaults to MacOSX.sdk anyway.
> 
> We would have no more need to default to forcing users to use an older 
> Xcode version on many platforms that can run a newer version.
> 
> It’s just the plain old right thing to do, and that is where Apple and 
> everyone else is headed.
> 
> 
> Ken