On 10.5 you installed a prebuilt binary. gcc6 takes 12 to 24 hrs to build on a PPC machine.
I should make my premade binaries available. K > On Mar 20, 2018, at 14:32, Andreas Falkenhahn <andr...@falkenhahn.com> wrote: > > <rant> > > So I installed gcc6 on my 10.5 G5 PowerMac a few days ago and it was a breeze. > It took just a few minutes. It looked like the installer just grabbed the > binaries > and installed them. No big deal at all. > > Now I am trying to install gcc6 on my 10.4 G4 Mac Mini and it seems to build > everything from sources and it's taking ages. Building apple-gcc42 took two > hours alone and that was just the first of many packages to come. > > I'm worried about my hardware because the CPU is at 100% all the time causing > the Mac Mini fan to be in full ventilation all the time. It has been running > like that for 3 hours now and there are still many more packages to go. If > it's > going to continue at that speed, I'd estimate the gcc6 installation to take > about 12 hours or so. > > Where does this difference come from? On my 10.5 G5 PowerMac it really was > just a few minutes and now it's taking hours. Yes, the G5 is faster but > certainly not that much. To me it looked as if on 10.5 binaries were > downloaded and installed whereas on 10.4 everything is built from scratch. > Is that right? > > If it is, there really should be a warning that this is going to take ages > because once the thing has been started there's no way out since I don't > want to interrupt it in the middle of installing for fear of breaking > something. And I'm worried about my hardware. It's 13 years old and now > has to run under full stress for hours and hours and hours :-/ Why doesn't > Mac Ports simply provide ready to run binaries for 10.4 PPC? The current > installation process feels a little bit like maximum overdose for my > poor old PPC Mac Mini... > > </rant> > > -- > Best regards, > Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com >