Re: MacOS 26 with fink 0.45.99.git

Hi Hanspeter,

I bootstrapped this several months ago (and ever since I started using Beta I have had gcc problems, say with trying to build Lilypond which tries to install gcc12 for example—since MacOS 26 is now published I felt safe to mention this).

ROBERTs-Mac-mini ~ % fink list macosx 
Information about 16139 packages read in 1 seconds.
 i   macosx                                   26.0.0-1                       [virtual package representing the system]
 p   tetex-macosx                                                            [virtual package]

Also, when installing gpgme11 I had to run this command:

sudo touch /opt/sw/bin/gpg2 

Due to an error:

Setting up gnupg2 (2.5.12-1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /opt/sw/bin/gpg2 doesn't exist

After which gpgme11 installed without further difficulty.

Please let me know if there are other details I might provide.

Kind regards,
Robert



> On Sep 15, 2025, at 6:51 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/15/25 6:35 PM, Robert Wyatt wrote:
>> For what it's worth I have fink running on an M4 Pro MacMini (please let me know if you have packages you’d like tested on this platform!) with the newest operating system (and gpgme11):
>> New package: dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-arm64/crypto/gpgme11_1.3.1-4_darwin-arm64.deb
>> New package: dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-arm64/crypto/gpgme11-shlibs_1.3.1-4_darwin-arm64.deb
>> ROBERTs-Mac-mini ~ % sw_vers; arch; gcc -dumpmachine; xcodebuild -version
>> ProductName:		macOS
>> ProductVersion:		26.0
>> BuildVersion:		25A353
>> arm64
>> arm64-apple-darwin25.0.0
>> Xcode 16.4
>> Build version 16F6
>> ROBERTs-Mac-mini ~ % fink --version
>> Package manager version: 0.45.99.git
>> Distribution version: selfupdate-git Sun Sep 14 19:02:41 2025, 15.0, arm64
>> Trees: local/main stable/main
>> ROBERTs-Mac-mini ~ % gcc --version
>> Apple clang version 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.5)
>> Target: arm64-apple-darwin25.0.0
>> Thread model: posix
>> InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
>> I had to manipulate a file (I’m sure this is not the only or best way to do it, but… it worked):
>> /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm
>> Around line 1458 I added the exception ’26.0’ = 15.0 per the following:
>> sub get_osx_vers {
>> 	my $sw_vers = get_osx_vers_long();
>> 	my $darwin_osx = get_darwin_equiv();
>> 	$sw_vers =~ s/^(\d+\.\d+).*$/$1/;
>> 	if ($sw_vers != $darwin_osx) {
>> 		# Special cases in Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, and Sonoma
>> 		# where it's OK to have a mismatch.
>> 		my %sw_to_darwin = (
>> 			'11.6' => 11.5,
>> 			'11.7' => 11.5,
>> 			'12.6' => 12.5,
>> 			'12.7' => 12.5,
>> 			'13.6' => 13.5,
>> 			'13.7' => 13.5,
>> 			'14.7' => 14.6,
>> 			'26.0' => 15.0);
>> 		die "$sw_vers does not match the expected value of $darwin_osx. Please run `fink selfupdate` to download a newer version of fink"
>> 			unless $sw_to_darwin{$sw_vers} == $darwin_osx;
>> 	}
>> 	return $sw_vers;
>> }
> 
> Excellent news! The code was updated about a month ago to know about macOS 26 and be able to bootstrap a fresh install, but I knew there would be an issue with upgrading due to a longstanding bug you edited around.
> 
> Was your install from a recently updated git pull ? I'm surprised that it says "Distribution: 15.0" since the most recent code says macOS 26 should be "Distribution: 26.0":
> https://github.com/fink/fink/commit/e28fd03431cac3bb4e47b84d2a515d9f70d4b6b3#diff-644b9c15e75bc3c878645dc3706446a499fe409d22d95652aa07e5f0408ff635
> 
> As another diagnostic, what does `fink list macosx` say? For example, on 10.14.6, I get (along with tetex-macosx which is irrelevant here):
> 
> i   macosx                      10.14.6-1             [virtual package representing the system]
> 
> Hanspeter
> 
> -- 
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> declares that it is his duty.
>  --George Bernard Shaw
>

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