Problems fetching from GitHub on 10.8?

[Jason Liu]

I see... I didn't realize that MacPorts base was actually linking against
libcurl, and not just simply calling the curl command-line utility.

-- 
Jason Liu


On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 3:30 PM Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill at korins.ky> wrote:

> Well... you need to build a MacPorts against some fresh enough libcurl :)
> Old system hasn't got enough.
>
> I'm using bootstrap MacPorts with curl (and python) for old systems :) And
> it works very stable.
>
> Can you use normal MacPorts and link MacPorts against curl from MacPorts?
> Yes, you can. But if you remove curl it won't work anymore. Completley.
>
> --
> wbr, Kirill
>
> On 21. Jul 2023, at 21:19, Jason Liu <jasonliu at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks Kirill. I'm still reading my way through that Trac ticket, but I
> think I'm starting to get the gist of what's going on. The interesting
> thing, though, is that I have the MacPorts curl (and curl-ca-bundle)
> installed on the 10.8 VM already. I would have thought that MacPorts base
> would look for and use MacPorts curl and curl-ca-bundle if they're
> installed?
>
> --
> Jason Liu
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 2:41 PM Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill at korins.ky>
> wrote:
>
>> See: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516
>>
>> You may also enjoy my ansible playbook:
>> https://github.com/catap/macos-ansible-playbooks
>>
>> --
>> wbr, Kirill
>>
>> On 21. Jul 2023, at 19:45, Jason Liu <jasonliu at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> On my Mountain Lion VM, a Portfile that I'm working on updating doesn't
>> seem to be able to fetch the distfile from GitHub, but the same Portfile is
>> able to fetch just fine from my El Capitan VM. Is anyone else on 10.8
>> experiencing this issue when attempting to fetch directly from GitHub?
>>
>> --
>> Jason Liu
>>
>>
>
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