<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">In general, the more a given system deviates from the main herd of ports, the more likely there are to be problems and the less likely they are to be fixed. To be honest, I don’t see why a new gcc port to be used only for powerpc is needed.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My only question is whether to skip over gcc8-12, or include them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we skip over gcc8-12, we can probably have a new release that uses gcc13 as the primary gcc on all systems in macports done by Monday. Less maybe. Last time I jumped the version, it took me an hour.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And then — no more worries. Existing macports base infrastructure will just work as it is. Some fairly minor tweaking of what compilers are available on which systems will be done.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we have to fix all the gcc versions between gcc8 and 12 — well that will take a bit more time to fix and to build.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For Riccardo’s bug, we always knew the gcc JIT was fragile on 32 bit systems. It probably needs to be disabled there by tweaking this block in the gcc8 Portfile:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">if {${subport} eq "gcc8"} {
# the jit is not building on i386 systems
# see <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61130" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61130</a>
if {${build_arch} ne "i386"} {
lappend gcc_configure_langs jit
}
}</pre><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Maybe that’s all it needs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 29, 2024, at 4:50 AM, Sergio Had <<a href="mailto:vital.had@gmail.com" class="">vital.had@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Well, the PR is either merged or not merged :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>