Re: Big Sur on an M1 - any ideas?

> On Feb 20, 2021, at 11:35, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2/19/21 11:26 PM, Debbie Fligor wrote:
>>> On Feb 19, 2021, at 17:34, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Checking package... looks good (fink-0.45.99.git).
>>>> Checking system... arm-apple-darwin20.2.0
>>>> Use of uninitialized value $gcc in regexp compilation at /Users/admin/src/fink/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm line 1343.
>>>> Use of uninitialized value $gcc in concatenation (.) or string at /Users/admin/src/fink/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm line 164.
>>>> This system is unrecognized and not supported by Fink.
>>>> admin@yfandes-wired fink %
>>> 
>>> Fink's bootstrap is set up to be conservative, so arm-apple-darwin20.x needs to be added to the the allowed list. $gcc is uninitialized because of that failure. fink/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm is the place where this happens, so you might try editing to experiment.   I don't recall for sure if that suffices to set the architecture for everything, or if there are other code adjustments that need to be made, however.
>> that was enough to get fink to install, thanks!
>> I’m working through the packages on selfupdate now (it’s having trouble pulling down sensible-utils-0.0.7.tar.gz, which seems like it’s probably not related to the ARM part of things). It doesn’t seem to matter which mirror I have it try, including sourceforge:
>> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.45.99.git' -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fink/sensible-utils-0.0.7.tar.gz
>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
>> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
>> ### execution of curl failed, exit code 22
>> Downloading the file "sensible-utils-0.0.7.tar.gz" failed.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, nobody on the development team has an M1.  I'd like a new computer, true, but that's not really in my budget.
>>> 
>>> We appreciate any help that our user community is able to provide.
>> I’ve never learned how to provide updates back as patches, either in the old-school diff way or the newer git-based world. I have more of a hack and slash until something works approach to compiling than an actual programmer or software engineer does. but if it helps to know what I changed, I could probably learn with some pointers to the right set of docs.
>> I added the middle section:
>>   	} elsif ($host =~ /^i386-apple-darwin2(\d+)\./) {
>>                 &print_breaking("This system was not released at the time " .
>>                         "this Fink release was made.  Prerelease versions " .
>>                         "of macOS might work with Fink, but there are no " .
>>                         "guarantees.");
>>                 $distribution = "11." . ($1-1);
>>         } elsif ($host =~ /^arm-apple-darwin20\./) {
>>                 &print_breaking("This system was not released at the time " .
>>                         "this Fink release was made.  Prerelease versions " .
>>                         "of macOS might work with Fink, but there are no " .
>>                         "guarantees.");
>>                 $distribution = "11.0";
>>         } elsif ($host =~ /^i386-apple-darwin(\d+)\./) {
>>                 &print_breaking("This system was not released at the time " .
>>                         "this Fink release was made.  Prerelease versions " .
>>                         "of macOS might work with Fink, but there are no " .
>>                         "guarantees.");
>>                 $distribution = "10." . ($1-4);
>>                     $distribution = "11.0”;
> 
> 
> Thanks for testing this. We're currently trying to push a major dpkg update out (one issue left AFAIK), and doing ARM will be the next thing to tackle afterwards.
> 
> A simple way to show changes is to make a copy of the original file your editing (Bootstrap.pm to Bootstrap.pm.orig, edit your changes, then run `diff -u Bootstrap.pm.orig Bootstrap.pm` to get the difference.

Thanks, I’ll do that next time.

> 
> Out of curiousity, what's the output of this command on your M1 with your patched Fink?
> 
> fink —version

% fink --version
Package manager version: 0.45.99.git
Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Feb 19 22:50:12 2021, 11.0, arm
Trees: local/main stable/main

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