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

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Dec 31 21:51:04 UTC 2020


On Dec 31, 2020, at 10:56, 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.
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> 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.

We have a lot of non-current software in MacPorts.

And I don't know what evidence you have that "almost all current configure software" does things correctly. I find that hard to believe.


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