Help with legacysupport PortGroup for building GIMP for older MacOS's

[Lukas Oberhuber]

Thanks. Unfortunately that's not particularly feasible because Circle
CI doesn't support running VMs this way, so I would have to create a
dedicated machine for this which runs into a number of problems, such as
not wanting to host a critical build device in my house!

Although, given Circle CI are getting rid of their intel VMs entirely in
the next few months, and given rust doesn't build in rosetta2, I may have
to go that route anyway.

On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 at 18:47, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Building and using legacysupport on a newer system to target an older
> system is tricky to design and implement properly.
>
> I think it is possible to do it, but issues will probably arise that only
> show up at deployment time.
>
> If I wanted to deploy gimp to 10.13, I would set up a 10.13 VM in
> Parallels on an Intel system, and build the final package there. That would
> be fully supported by macports, and require nothing special to work
> properly.
>
> I’m not sure if you would need a special prefix for your package, but if
> not, if you build a self-contained application bundle, then you could even
> use premade binaries.
>
> Ken
>
>
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