Portfile question for 10.6.8

[raf]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:45:58PM -0700, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Jun 6, 2023, at 6:16 PM, raf via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Newer systems download them to distfiles.macports.org
> <http://distfiles.macports.org/>, and that site supports older TLS so
> older systems can get them from there.

Thanks.

cheers,
raf