Sounds good to me.  Maybe we should hear from the Jacks as well.

  -- Dave


On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

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> How about if I implement the following then:
> 
> change the extant gcc45-10.4.info to look for gcc45-10.4.patch
> copy the extant gcc45.patch to gcc45-10.4.patch
> commit the 10.5 and 10.6-relevant files (gcc45.patch, gcc45.info,
> gcc45-x86_64.info) from the tracker
> 
> ?
> 
> That way we will have the updated gcc45 in 10.5 and 10.6, with the
> option to update it in 10.4.
> 
> On 8/11/10 9:19 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>> 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:
>> 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) ?
>> 
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