Restarting from scratch on Snow Leopard

[James Linder]

> On 1 Mar 2019, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-request at lists.macports.org wrote:
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>>> is llvm39 still the one to be used?
>> 
>> I still use +llvm39
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>> $ port -v installed | grep ld64
>>  ld64 @3_1+universal-ld64_127-ld64_236-ld64_97 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='i386 x86_64' date='2018-09-20T16:56:39-0700'
>>  ld64-latest @274.2_2+llvm39+universal-llvm34 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='i386 x86_64' date='2017-11-26T13:19:27-0800'
>> 
>> 
>> One thing you learn in this, is to be current but not too current. There is no benefit to trying to ride the dragon's tale here -- you just run into a lot of new errors that haven't been dealt with yet.
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>> llvm3.9 is about equal to Sierra. That's a pretty good spot. I haven't really tried anything newer yet.
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>> I was configured to use clang-3.9 as my primary compiler up until a few weeks ago, when I fixed clang-5.0+ to enable thread_local storage, and so have just recently set clang-5.0 as my default compiler.
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> 
> Right now I’ve finished the whole procedure described in
> 
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems>
> 
> 
> without hitting any issue (unlike when I had Xcode 4.2 installed). Will now attempt installing the usual packages I need.
> 
> Thanks for your help, Ken!

<rant>
I bought a mac. It came with Snow Leopard CDs. I cleaned the disk and want to re-install Snow Leopard. I can’t “Certificate Expired”.
Google: easy: iTunes -> purchased: download (ooops I never purchesed or downloaded a copy, I have the CDs), OK Apple Download: only the earliest is later than that. (IIRC Yosemite)
Oh Apple! he politely lamented
</rant>
So how does the poor boy install Snow Leopard? Brain surgery on the CD springs to mind but that is too involved for moi. No network and fiddle the date?

James