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On 1/17/11 10:22 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:38:23PM -0500, David Fang wrote:
>> Jack,
>>      Do you have a reference to what these 10.4 build issues are (thread or 
>> bugzilla)?
>>      Also, with your permission, can I enable cloog for 10.4?  The only  
>> reason that I can see that it was restricted was because ppl didn't work  
>> before, but I've since fixed it.  cloog validates for me cleanly on  
>> powerpc-darwin8.  I'm hoping this would reduce the amount of work for  
>> maintaining this family.
>>      I can also validate cloog-org for you on 10.4 when it is ready.
> 
> Fang,
>   This is http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45248. Currently 
> MacPorts
> is taking the approach in their gcc45 package of building on darwin 8 with
> --with-dwarf2 
> (http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/lang/gcc45/Portfile).
> However Mike Stump rejected this change for upstream...
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-09/msg00719.html
> 
> although Iain Sandoe was of a different opinion...
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-09/msg00723.html
> 
> Basically darwin8 is between a rock and a hard place. There are bootstrap 
> issues
> under stabs and the dwarf2 support in darwin8's Xcode is experimental. Also 
> since 
> there are no testers upstream for darwin8, the regression state of the 
> resulting
> compiler is questionable. Also if you read through the old thread in 
> fink-devel
> for gcc 4.5.1, Jack Fink claimed that dwarf2 was giving him problems on 
> i386...
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20513.html
> 
> to which I replied...
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20515.html
> 
> Since David Morrison suggested we just nix further 10.4 packages...
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20516.html
> 
> I was leaning in that direction. Also since the security patch situation with
> darwin8 is dicey, it seems unwise to encourage folks to keep running Tiger.
>                   Jack
>>
>> Fang
>>
>>>  I have placed updated gcc45-4.5.2-1000 packaging on fink tracking in  
>>> case anyone is interested in pushing it into fink unstable.
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3138732&group_id=17203&atid=414256
>>>
>>> The packaging doesn't include a 10.4 variant due to the unresolved build 
>>> issues
>>> upstream for that target. This also was David Morrison's recommendation for 
>>> the
>>> previous uncommitted gcc45-4.5.1-1000 packaging.
>>>   The new packaging requires an updated cloog package as well. This is  
>>> present to prepare for gcc46 which will use a cloog-org package instead 
>>> (hence the addition of a Conflicts/Replaces in cloog.info).
>>>             Jack
>>>

What's the status here?  It's considerable effort for me to download
anything these days, so I haven't tried to look at this yet on 10.5/10.6.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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