MacPorts on Tiger

[raf]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 08:36:02AM +0000, Mick <Michele.Bert at posteo.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 04:47:14PM -0700, contextnerror wrote:
> > Support for Tiger was dropped in the intervening months.
> > 
> > https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/fe87793b8e5bb4a05bc432a3c3b17b3fb870b0c7
> > 
> Sad to hear that, but not unexpected.
> However I belive that Mac can still serve me for the 
> simples task I need, which of course has not anything
> to do with a direct internet connection!
> 
> I tryed to compile maports tarball with the provided
> gcc (4.0), but the linker ran out of memory at final
> stage.
> 
> What if I try with an older version of macports? Let's
> say 2.9.3 for instance?
> Nothing strictly necessary, it's just an hobby, but
> it would be grate to have a sufficiently recent gcc,
> ssh, git, and other small cli tools, to interact with 
> my home LAN.
> --
> Michele 

I could be wrong but I think that 2.10.2 might be the
last version that supported macos-10.4. I have 2.10.3
on my macos-10.4 but I think that's one update too far.

Hopefully, with 2.10.2, you might still be able to get
port updates (for fewer and fewer ports as times goes on).

cheers,
raf