Fetching port getmail fails

[Horst Simon]

Thanks for the explanations
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> On 21 Apr 2024, at 07:08, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 19, 2024, at 18:24, Horst Simon wrote:
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>> What I tried to explain is that the curl I used in previous installs was from MacPorts, but when it failed I had only the macOS High Sierra native curl.
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> That's what I thought you meant, but I don't think you've achieved that.
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> You wrote:
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>> after adding changing
>> the root profile using /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin it worked ok
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> I assume you mean that you edited the shell startup file of the root user so that /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin are included in its PATH environment variable.
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> I further assume that you either meant /opt/local instead of /usr/local or that you have built MacPorts from source and specified the configure arguments --prefix=/usr/local --with-unsupported-prefix when doing so, since using /usr/local as your MacPorts prefix is not recommended.
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Yes /opt/local and not /usr/local

> If that's what you did, then that will affect what commands are available when you use a root shell but it will not affect which curl MacPorts uses.
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> MacPorts doesn't use the curl executable. It uses the libcurl library. Which one it uses is determined at configure time. If you use MacPorts installed from our installer, it uses /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib. If you build MacPorts from source, you can have it use whatever curl you like by using the --with-curlprefix configure argument, except that using the libcurl installed by MacPorts is not recommended because if you ever deactivate the curl port, then you would not be able to run MacPorts anymore because it would not be able to find the libcurl library anymore.
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> To overcome this, some users who want to have MacPorts use a newer libcurl than their OS provides build curl from source in some other prefix and configure MacPorts to use that, or they install curl in a second copy of MacPorts that they build from source in some other prefix and then build their primary copy of MacPorts from source, using the libcurl from the second copy of MacPorts.
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> We try to keep things working so that this is not necessary, e.g. by having a network of mirror servers, making mirror servers available over http for old OS versions whose libcurls can't access https anymore, etc. When you find situations like this one with getmail where it's not working, just report it to us and we'll figure out what needs to be fixed.
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