Re: Survey for macosx and/or windows users

"Chun Tian (binghe)" <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:30:19 +1100

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

Hello again,

it seems that MacPorts doesn't like including pre-release versions of GCL and
want to include a final release.

So I'm going to help testing GCL builds in all "recent" macOS versions (I have
macOS VMs from 10.5 to 15.0, continuously), especially those after 11.0 (Big
Sur) and send patches or bug reports to Camm, until GCL 2.6.15 (and maybe also
2.7.0) is finally released, and then MacPorts package can be updated (gcl and
gcl27).

--Chun

On 29/03/25 11:20, Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today I submitted a PR [1] to MacPorts with a updated Portfile (package
> definition). The idea was to let MacPorts to download GCL 2.6.14 from main GNU
> site (as before) but then apply all Debian patches extracted from Debian source
> tarballs (like [2]). It's tested that now I can build GCL 2.6.15pre17 on my
> local machine as a MacPorts package, without any other private patch.
> 
> If MacPorts maintainer does not let me put 17K patch files into their Git
> repository, I will try to download these patches from Debian server first, and
> then apply them manually.
> 
> The "cltl1" mode is added as a package variant so far, but I'm working on
> building GCL 4 times (ansi/cltl1, with/without profiling) together and combine
> all files into a single package like the Debian package does.
> 
> I will also test the building process on more macOS versions and report back (if
> the issue is non-trivial). Now I got my first ARM Mac, and I will check GCL
> building on it.
> 
> P.S. My final purpose is to add also the "axiom" package into MacPorts.
> 
> --Chun
> 
> [1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28031
> [2] http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcl/gcl_2.6.14-18.debian.tar.xz
> 
> On 08/03/25 05:59, Camm Maguire wrote:
>> Greetings, and thanks so much, and for all your wonderful work as well!
>> It does appear that we will be using macports as our preferred mac
>> packaging system for GCL.  I will post here when 'port install' can be
>> expected to work.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> "Warren A. Hunt Jr." <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Camm,
>>>
>>>>  Greetings!  Do macosx users like to use macports,
>>>>  homebrew, or compile on their own?  Likewise do
>>>>  windows users use cygwin, or compile on their own?
>>>
>>> I use ``macports.''  Thank you for all of your great
>>> work on GCL.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Warren
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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