On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > On 19.01.2015 04:37 PM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> Le 15/01/2015 20:24, René J.V. Bertin a écrit : >>> On Thursday January 15 2015 19:25:38 Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> >>>> So I'm still stuck with gcc-4.2-only at the moment. >>>> >>>> I'm not asking for libc++ on PPC. I know that this might require quite >>>> a bit of effort, but I would like to know if *any* slightly more >>>> modern compiler could be built and used. >>> The latest gcc version I had on PPC before my Powermacs died was 4.2.3, >>> which I think is ever so slightly more recent that what Apple shipped. >>> >>> I'd go have a look at what linux distros for that architecture provide. >> Debian's default on powerpc is gcc 4.9.2: > > What about Minix? FreeBSD? GNU HURD? > > Seriously, the FSF compiler won't cut it on OS X. Just as one example, > it can't produce fat binaries (i.e., binaries with multiple > architectures) and doesn't support the Apple Blocks extension. You won't > have a lot of fun with FSF GCC as your default compiler. > > This is why we are either stuck with Apple's GCC or clang. If the latter > works, that is.
I'm trying to build one program that works fine on PPC Linux, but segfaults on PPC Mac (and works on any other Mac). I would like to exclude a compiler bug (I'm not sure if there's a bug in compiler or a bug in the code that I'm compiling). I successfully built clang-3.4 a few days ago, but it refuses to compile the code. From that perspective having a working gcc would be helpful. I assume that gcc 4.8 worked on PPC Leopard a while ago (judging from various comments), so GCC (libgcc to be more precise, http://trac.macports.org/ticket/46557) must have started failing recently, possibly after the switch to 4.9. Maybe I should try to build libgcc from 4.8. It would probably be helpful to start providing experimental binary packages with clang 3.6 for PPC (built as described by Jeremy). Once that is available, it should be much easier to keep building the latest and greatest versions from SVN from there. Does one need the server edition of 10.5 to be able to install it in a virtual machine? Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
