Transmission Build Error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 24, 2007, at 13:55, markd at macports.org wrote:

> Daniel Laughlin writes:
>
>> /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_ 
>> transmission/work/Transmission-0.6.1/build/Transmission.build/ 
>> Debug/libtransmission.build/Objects-normal/ppc/net.o
>> error: couldn't exec /usr/bin/gcc-3.3: No such file or directory
>
> I don't know why it can't find gcc3, though I don't know why the  
> app wants
> it either. But given that it wants it that may be the problem.   
> Perhaps it
> uses gcc3 just for the transmission CLI for some bizarre reason.  The
> transmission port is a little out of date also. so perhaps  
> updateing it
> would fix it too.

Transmission seems to be a universal binary. Probably it uses gcc33  
to compile the PowerPC part of the app so that it works on 10.3+, and  
gcc4 to compile the Intel part which only needs to work on 10.4+.  
Please install gcc33 using the Xcode installer.