[MacPorts] #64570: qt5 asks for clang 7.0 on 10.5.8

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#64570: qt5 asks for clang 7.0 on 10.5.8
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  Reporter:  barracuda156                  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect                        |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal                        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                         |    Version:  2.7.1
Resolution:                                |   Keywords:  powerpc
      Port:  qt53, qt55, qt56, qt57, qt58  |
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Comment (by kencu):

 Replying to [comment:7 barracuda156]:
 > Replying to [comment:2 kencu]:
 > > No version of qt5 works on darwin PowerPC, and likely never will,
 unless some funded genius who loves PowerPC darwin comes along, and has
 about a year to spend on it.
 >
 > It won't be solved if we get gcc10 or gcc11 running in Macports on
 PowerPC?


 No. gcc7.5 is actually very capable. I did not find any build failures on
 PowerPC because gcc7.5 was too old, which is why there was no rush to
 update it.

 Newer compilers often break more things than they fix, in fact.

 The build failures for ports on PowerPC Darwin usually relate to 1000
 other broken things, like old SDK, or build assumes clang, or build uses
 asm code and has no PPC implementation, or newer Xcode needed, or newer
 linker fearures used, or……………….

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