<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=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2018, at 7:40 PM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div class="">Abandon 2004!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OK. You might want to know what I mean by that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Snow Leopard can build and run a very great amount of current software. But you need to use a newer compiler and stdlib setup to make that work smoothly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suggest you do what I do:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">run through the <<a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems</a>> instructions that our Apple genius, Jeremy, set up for us.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Set your default compiler to something new, but not too new, like clang-3.9. That is (currently) about perfect (= about clang 900).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then your MacPorts installation will munch on through and install 99% of everything without you even knowing that gcc-4.2 doesn’t work. And really — who cares if gcc-4.2 doesn’t work?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the software the current committers are committing will most likely work, because your system looks almost exactly like their system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your only issue might be Xcode builds, and much of that is fixable as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is very little I can’t build on SnowLeopard with this setup.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div></body></html>