[MacPorts] #27706: pdftk: Installation never completes

[John Korchok]

Thank you very much for the tip. Installing using the +gcc42 option allowed
installation to proceed normally on both Leopard G4 and Intel platforms.

John Korchok

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> #27706: pdftk: Installation never completes
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>  Reporter:  jkorchok at .            |       Owner:  
> ryandesign at .           
>      Type:  defect                |      Status:  new         
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>  Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:              
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> Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.9.2       
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>  Keywords:                        |        Port:  pdftk       
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> Comment(by ryandesign at .):
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>  pdftk installs in about 5 minutes on my 2.2-GHz MacBook Pro, 
> but takes 2  hours 15 minutes on my 466-MHz Power Mac G4. But 
> several days sounds  excessive.
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>  Note that pdftk has a couple variants for choosing a 
> compiler. On my G4 I  happened to use the gcc42 variant; you 
> might want to try that instead of  the default gcc45 variant. 
> It seems to me that older GCCs work better on  PowerPCs and 
> with older Mac OS X versions than newer GCCs do.
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