[macports-ports] branch master updated: gcc7 / libgcc: fix build on Intel Tiger

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 16, 2018, at 03:20, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2018, at 00:24, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 15, 2018, at 22:55, Ken wrote:
>> 
>>> Ken (kencu) pushed a commit to branch master
>>> in repository macports-ports.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/084e2e8809afc62472eafc9c098b4bc9249b48b0
>>> 
>>> The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
>>> 
>>>    new 084e2e8  gcc7 / libgcc: fix build on Intel Tiger
>>> 
>>> 084e2e8 is described below
>>> 
>>> 
>>> commit 084e2e8809afc62472eafc9c098b4bc9249b48b0
>>> 
>>> Author: ken-cunningham-webuse
>>> AuthorDate: Sun Apr 15 20:55:04 2018 -0700
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   gcc7 / libgcc: fix build on Intel Tiger
>>> 
>>>   small patch isolated to Intel Tiger to
>>>   fix the build of the current libgcc and
>>>   gcc7 on this system
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> lang/gcc7/Portfile                          |   4 ++
>>> lang/gcc7/files/patch-gcc7-tiger-intel.diff | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 108 insertions(+)
>> 
>> I'm curious to learn why this fix isn't needed on PowerPC Tiger.
>> 
>> 
> 
> me too...I expected Intel Tiger to just build like it does on PPC and was surprised to have to do these fixes to make it work...


Do these ports build for you on PowerPC Tiger? They didn't for me, last time I checked a month or two ago.


Also, are there MacPorts tickets showing the problem that this patch fixes? And are there upstream bug reports? At the moment, this looks a patch that we'll have to carry forward forever (or until we drop support for these OS versions), without an apparent means of verifying whether the patches continue to be needed in future versions of gcc.