bootstrap_curl.pkg error on Tiger

[cellularmitosis]

Hello,

I decided to give this a try on Tiger, but ran into a problem with the bootstrap_curl.pkg:

[barracuda156]

@cellularmitosis It probably won’t actually work on 10.5, that was just the default setting in a packaging app that I used. Having an external curl is not a requirement in fact. For now you could just build the base normally, without configuring against external bootstrap prefix with curl and friends. (It is always easy to rebuild it against that, if needed. It is even possible to rebuild against its own curl (inside /opt/local, after it is installed), though this is not really advised.)

Installers did not have OS version explicitly specified, because my initial – and explicitly declared – intent was to support only 10.6 for anything pre-built. Now since there is some interest to have it working on other systems, we can add 10.5 and 10.4 versions. And I will rename existing files, so that no confusion arises.

[cellularmitosis]

thanks!

[barracuda156]

You can also reproduce the set-up locally by first building everything up to curl in some non-default prefix and then rebuilding main installation with --with-curlprefix=${that_prefix}.

[cellularmitosis]

Yeah actually I tried that with the bootstrap curl from tiger.sh, but macports didn’t like it because it didn’t include libcurl. Which was surprising, because if I otherwise just place a modern curl binary in $PATH, it works.

[barracuda156]

I don’t know how that one is built and I only tried myself with MacPorts’s curl, but the latter one works fine.
One caveat is that it should have same arch slices with the main installation (not an issue with typical usage, but if you switch between build_archs or build universal, it becomes).