[MacPorts] #65146: Circular dependency of gcc11 on Snow Leopard when trying to build gcc11 using an alternative bootstrapping path using gcc10-bootstrap in the hopes of it someday building on 10.6 for PPC

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#65146: Circular dependency of gcc11 on Snow Leopard when trying to build gcc11
using an alternative bootstrapping path using gcc10-bootstrap in the hopes
of it someday building on 10.6 for PPC
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  Reporter:  barracuda156     |      Owner:  catap
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:  2.7.2
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:  snowleopard
      Port:  gcc11, libgcc11  |
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Comment (by barracuda156):

 Replying to [comment:4 kencu]:
 > gcc11 builds using clang on 10.6 (for Intel).
 >
 > Here you are trying to build gcc11 on 10.6 on PPC using gcc10-bootstrap?
 >
 > We haven't really explored that path as yet. Someday we may set up
 gcc11/libgcc11 (or gcc12/libgcc12) to build with gcc10-bootstrap. That
 will require somebody figuring out how it should be done, and on which
 systems.
 >
 > But it is not presently supported, and there is no error in gcc11 or
 circular dependancy a this time.

 Well, FWIU, `gcc10-bootstrap` was precisely designed to help older systems
 to get to the latest compilers (which cannot be bootstrapped directly).

 To re-iterate, this issue has nothing to do with PPC, I get this problem
 when building for `x86_64` (no universal) on 10.6.8 (no developer builds).
 I just don't need `clang` but need `gcc11`.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65146#comment:9>
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