[MacPorts] #64525: many ports fail to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta) due to collect2: ld terminated with signal 6 [Abort trap]

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#64525: many ports fail to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta) due to collect2: ld
terminated with signal 6 [Abort trap]
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  Reporter:  barracuda156      |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect            |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal            |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports             |    Version:  2.7.1
Resolution:                    |   Keywords:  powerpc, snowleopard, rosetta
      Port:  shared-mime-info  |
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Comment (by kencu):

 For background…

 Up to the present, MacPorts has been prepared to help support users with a
 standard installation of {{{Xcode 3.2.6}}} building Intel ports on  the
 last release of 10.6.8. Many are against this policy and for good reasons,
 by the way.

 x86_64 builds are still pretty reliable at present. i386 builds are
 getting shaky due to minimal upstream testing on darwin, but there is
 desire to have it work.

 ppc on 10.6.8 is totally unsupported, and completely untested by anyone
 upstream or on MacPorts for that matter.

 It would be “cool” if it worked, for sure. Modest PRs with patches to
 support that might be considered by port maintainers. Not many, if any,
 will actively try to fix such build errors, though.

 If a user such as you interested it such unusual builds finds flaws in
 MacPorts base or Portfile code that are manifest doing such a build, and
 that can be fixed without making too much of a mess of the existing code
 base, that would be something beneficial for sure.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64525#comment:10>
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