MacPorts on Tiger

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Sat Mar 29 23:47:14 UTC 2025


Support for Tiger was dropped in the intervening months.

https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/fe87793b8e5bb4a05bc432a3c3b17b3fb870b0c7

> On Mar 29, 2025, at 3:18 PM, Sriranga Raghavan Veeraraghavan via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michele,
> 
> About a year ago I was able to get MacPorts installed and build a number of ports on Tiger.  It took quite a long time to get it running because I think MacPorts first had to build a useable tool chain.  Once the new tool chain was built, most of the ports I tried seemed to build and run fine.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -ranga 
> 
>> On Mar 29, 2025, at 08:26, michele.bert at posteo.net wrote:
>> 
>> I am getting back to macports, after a couple of years, becouse I manage to install Tiger (10.4) on my iBookG4, but I got the surprise of not finding any installation package for system older than Leopard!
>> So I decided to try to compile it by myself.
>> Is it something teoreticaly affordable? Are still reachable documentation on the starting requirement (version of XCode/development environment)?
>> Are out there anyone still using macports on OSX-Tiger?
>> --
>> Michele



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