Getting MacPorts to work on Darwin 8

Karl Fischer kmf at fischer.org.za
Sun Jan 23 23:03:38 PST 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:54, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 00:53, Karl Fischer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:42, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 00:36, Karl Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a Binary version of MacPorts available for Darwin,
>>>> Obviously I can't install X11 or XCode.
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a binary version of MacPorts Base available for Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard:
>>>
>>> http://www.macports.org/install.php
>>>
>>> Ports themselves must be compiled.
>>>
>>> For Tiger, you must install Xcode 2.5 which is available from Apple Developer Connection. X11 is part of Mac OS X. The X11 SDK is part of Xcode.
>>
>> Hi Ryan,
>> I'm running Darwin 8 not OS X,
>> I'm trying to install MacPorts on OS X, thats easy :)
>>
>> I think I have to follow the instructions under the "Other Platforms" section
>
> Oh. Pure Darwin 8. Yeah I don't know if that works anymore. Nobody tests that.
>

I'm using ISO built by Apple found on Apple's Website ...
http://www.opensource.apple.com/static/iso/darwinx86-801.iso.gz

Referring to Pure Darwin ... would get me confused with
www.puredarwin.org project which,
I'm not working with.

Karl


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