Re: macOS packages updated to 15.5 SDK.

[Wu Ming <wu.ming2%icloud.com@localhost>]

Apropos: how to install from the latest sources for earlier versions of macOS?

Latest version of bison, sed, tar, bc, meson and more compile and run without issues on 10.13.

SmartOS pkgsrc now provides up to date binaries for 10.15 onwards. Earlier macOS are tied to outdated package versions. How to skip binaries and get the latest? Apart of pulling directly from GNU or *BSD. Thanks. 


> On 15 Oct 2026, at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:
> In order to support newer C and C++ standards required by software that pkgsrc is updating to, I've had to bump the compiler and SDK version that I build my binary packages against.
> 
> If you are using my package repository from:
> 
>  https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/
> 
> then head to the "ARM 15.5+ (upgrade)" instructions to switch your configs from the 14.5 repository (which will no longer be updated) to the new 15.5 repository.
> 
> Alternatively if you would rather do this manually then update the following files and s/14.5/15.5/:
> 
>  /opt/pkg/etc/pkg_install.conf
>  /opt/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
> 
> before running:
> 
>  $ pkg_add -U pkg_install pkgin
>  $ pkgin upgrade
> 
> There are still a few packages missing compared to the 14.5 repository, at least based on my own requirements, but these will hopefully be made available in due course.  If you are interested then the most recent bulk build result is here, though due to the recent git forced push the commit reporting is incorrect:
> 
>  https://reports.pkgci.org/Darwin/15.5/arm64/20261013T130912Z/report.html
> 
> The 14.5 repository will no longer be updated, but will remain available for archival purposes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Perkin                    pkgsrc.smartos.org
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