Portfile question for 10.6.8

[raf]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 11:09:13AM +1000, raf via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:

> So if I use different macro names (e.g. ALL_CFLAGS and ALL_LDFLAGS), and just
> add $(CFLAGS) and $(LDFLAGS) from the environment to it, then it should work.
> I'll try that.
> 
> Yay! It worked. Many thanks. I'll fix my Makefile for the upcoming version
> of rawhide and create the Portfile for that.

That still leaves the question of how 10.6.8 hosts can download distfiles
from a non-https site (when https sites won't support TLS 1.0). Do distfiles
magically end up on http://distfiles.macports.org?

cheers,
raf