If I could make a small suggestion on this thread.  Fink's support for 10.4 
will end fairly soon, so it would not be such a bad thing if gcc 4.5.1 only 
runs on 10.5 and 10.6.

  -- Dave


On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:48:45PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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>> On 8/11/10 4:56 PM, Jack Fink wrote:
>>> Salut Jack,
>>> the problem on 10.4-i386 (with 2 dwarves) is that the build tries to build 
>>> something as x86_64, which can't succeed with a 32bit libc.dylib.
>>> Cheers (and thanks for putting that much brain/time/effort into gcc!)
>>> 
>>> -jack
>>> 
> 
> Jack,
>   Is this with Xcode 2.5? I'm surprised I didn't hear about this
> problem before although I do see...
> 
> Historical Footnote: Compiling 64-Bit Command-Line Code for Mac OS X v10.4
> 
> Mac OS X v10.4 supports some 64-bit executables. However, Mac OS X v10.4 does 
> not include a full 64-bit stack; Mac OS X v10.4 contains only libSystem and 
> the Accelerate framework in 64-bit versions. In addition, Mac OS X 10.4 
> includes neither the Objective-C runtime nor a 64-bit Objective-C-capable 
> version of dyld. Because of these differences, if you try to execute a 64-bit 
> executable in 10.4 that depends on these 10.5-specific features, it would 
> crash.
> 
> To prevent new 64-bit executables from running as 64-bit on version 10.4, 
> Apple changed the CPU subtype for 64-bit executables that depend on 
> high-level frameworks.
> 
> If you need to compile an executable as 64-bit for Mac OS X v10.4, you must 
> select the 10.4 deployment target when building 64-bit executables and 
> separate your code into a 32-bit front-end (GUI) portion and a 64-bit 
> back-end (processing) portion.
> 
> at 
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/64bitPorting/building/building.html.
> Did the any of the previous gcc4x packages build the x86_64 multilib under 
> 10.4?
>         Jack
> 
>> 
>> And you got an error with the prior iteration (no dwarf2) ?
>> 
>> - -- 
>> Alexander Hansen
>> Fink User Liaison
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