Re: 10.12

> On Jul 29, 2016, at 06:54, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Thanks Alexander,
> 
> I was meaning to weigh in on Fink 10.12. I was able to make minor changes to the bootstrap routines and successfully built a distribution under Sierra Public Beta #2.
> 
> One key point was to NOT ask to download binary distributions (since 10.12 doesn't exist on the mirrors yet).
> 
> Unfortunately, when I try to build new packages, I'm encountering errors with autoconf (aclocal.m4) and objtool. Haven't figured that out yet.
> 
> But here are the diffs to make bootstrap work on 10.12:
> 
> diff postinstall.pl.in fink-0.39.3/postinstall.pl.in 
> 261c261
> < if ( $distribution eq "10.9" or $distribution eq "10.10" or $distribution eq "10.11" or $distribution eq "10.12"
> ---
> > if ( $distribution eq "10.9" or $distribution eq "10.10" or $distribution eq "10.11"
> 
> 
> diff REVISION ../fink-0.39.3/REVISION 
> 4d3
> < 10.12: 111
> 
> 
> diff Bootstrap.pm ../fink-0.39.3/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm 
> 230,235d229
> < 	} elsif ($host =~ /^i386-apple-darwin16\./) {
> < 		&print_breaking("This system was not released at the time " .
> < 			"this Fink release was made.  Prerelease versions " .
> < 			"of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no " .
> < 			"guarantees.");
> < 		$distribution = "10.12";
> 1061d1054
> < 		"10.12" => "10.9-libcxx",
> 
> 
> diff FinkVersion.pm.in  ../fink-0.39.3/perlmod/Fink/FinkVersion.pm.in
> 121d120
> < 					"10.12/x86_64" => "0.16.0",
> 
> 
> diff PkgVersion.pm fink-0.39.3/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm 
> 5403,5406d5402
> < 			} elsif ($perlversion eq  "5.18.2" and Fink::Services::get_kernel_vers() eq '16') {
> < 				# 10.12 system-perl is 5.18.2, but the only supplied
> < 				# interpreter is /usr/bin/perl5.18 (not perl5.18.2)
> < 				$perlcmd = "/usr/bin/arch -%m perl5.18";
> 
> 
> diff Services.pm fink-0.39.3/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm
> 1319,1320c1319
> < 		'10.11' => '4.2',
> < 		'10.12' => '4.2',
> ---
> > 		'10.11' => '4.2'
> 
> 
> diff VirtPackage.pm fink-0.39.3/perlmod/Fink/VirtPackage.pm
> 916,919d915
> < 	} elsif ($osxversion == 16) {
> < 		@SDKDIRS=qw(
> < 			MacOSX10.12.sdk
> < 		);
> 

Thanks for the contribution!  I just created a “sierra-alpha-bravo” branch on github for 10.12-related fink development based on these changes.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison

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