Re: GCC on MacPorts

> On 25 May 2026, at 11:56, Iain Sandoe <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> Hello Hans,

Hi,

> We (GCC developers) have no visibility of the internal workings of =
macports - you would need to take up the maintenance of that port with =
the organisers there.

I started there; see the link in the original post, repeated here for =
your convenience.
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/73925

> What I do is to publish =E2=80=9Cgeneric=E2=80=9D darwin/macOS =
branches (usually with some additions) - which have then been taken by =
macports and homebrew and adjusted for their respective packaging =
environments.
>=20
>> GCC on MacPorts seems to not be maintained anymore; I reported there =
that GCC 16 has been released (link below), and there were no takers. So =
I post here in case someone knows how to move further.
>=20
> As macOS is supported on a voluntary basis, it takes me a little time =
usually from the initial release until the Darwin/macOS one is ready.  =
Currently I am releasing macOS from a development branch - which =
includes support for Arm64 (aarch64) which is not yet upstreamed.

So possibly, it might appear there sometime in the future.