Re: OSX 11.2 (and M1 hardware) support

John Wiggins via Fink-beginners <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks.  It is encouraging that XQuartz appears to be working nicely.



$ uname -a
Darwin jwMini.local 20.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:06:51 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64
jwMini: (~) /Users/jw
$ uname -a
Darwin jwMini.local 20.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:06:51 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64
jwMini: (~) /Users/jw
$ sw_vers
ProductName:    macOS
ProductVersion: 11.2.1
BuildVersion:   20D74
jwMini: (~) /Users/jw
$ /usr/bin/perl --version

This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 2 (v5.28.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2019, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

jwMini: (~) /Users/jw
$ 






> On Feb 12, 2021, at 10:21 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2/11/21 4:53 PM, John Wiggins via Fink-beginners wrote:
>> I have just begun using a new M1 Mac mini, updated to macOS 11.2.1, and have installed most of what I would like to use except fink.
>> Previous emails indicate there was a branch working for 11.0.1, but we are well beyond that now.
>> I have installed Xcode 12.4 along with the associated Command Line Tools separately.
>> Should I attempt to install fink, or wait util I see a supported announcment?
>> Are there any special instructions, or problems with  using fink the latest Big Sur or with M1 hardware?
>> Note:  Although I am pretty much a beginner, I did recently do a fresh install of fink on Catalina and I plan to use just
>> 	emacs26
>> 	psutils-letter
>> 	Ghostscript
>> 	w3m
>> 	a2ps
> 
> I don't think anyone has tested Fink with M1 Mac's yet, since none of the core devs have an M1 Mac. An unreleased version of Fink does work on intel/11.2.1, so you could try to see if that works on an M1 Mac.
> 
> First, what's the Terminal output of the following 3 commands:
> 
> uname -a
> sw_vers
> /usr/bin/perl --version
> 
> Hanspeter
> 



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