Re: macos status

"Chun Tian (binghe)" <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Mar 2025 15:07:47 +1100

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.gcl.devel
Organization	The Australian National University
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Greetings,

On 01/03/25 01:50, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings, and great to hear from you both again!
> 
> I've posted this query several places, and I've received another comment
> indicating that macports is for older machines (i.e. 'retro people' :-))
> and homebrew more modern.  If macports could support both older and
> newer versions, it makes sense to focus there.  However, like you, my
> mac development environment is stuck at Catalina for reasons we've
> discussed.  Everything works there for GCL, both 2.6 and 2.7, but I am
> worried about support for up to date machines.  I have yet to try
> Kirill's remote ssh into a github action, which may be the solution, but
> ideally there would be a workaround by now to get a virtualbox under
> linux or the like to run a more modern macosx.  Perfect would be remote
> access to a modern mac.  Thoughts?

See my other post regarding your VirtualBox situation.

> 
> Separately, you may be interested that I have updated Debian's axiom
> package to build on the ANSI versions of GCL.  I've incorporated support
> in the Makefiles for parallel builds, which reduces build time to about
> 11min.  This has now migrated to testing.  Tim is sending me his last
> website which will be uploaded to Savannah.  And once the GCL dust
> settles I will update the axiom package to his last commit several years
> ago. 

This is great news. I means that CLTL1 mode of GCL is no longer needed on my
side (or anyone trying to build Axiom). I will learn your Debian patch for sure!
Thanks.

Chun

> 
> Take care,
>

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