odcctools - possible on 10.3.9?

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 07-06-27 à 21:43, Yves de Champlain a écrit :

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> Le 07-06-27 à 18:17, William Gallafent a écrit :
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>> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 23:02:37 Yves de Champlain wrote:
>>> As far as I know, it does not work on 10.3.9.
>>
>> I guess it should flag this in the port file then, as per Ryan's
>> suggestion in the next mail in this thread (!)
>>
>>> We could
>>> always bring back to life the old version that used to.  But,
>>> I am tempted to ask why you want odcctools as its main
>>> purpose is darwin development ?
>>
>> Well, I'm attempting to build the gcc42 port on 10.3.9, and that
>> build fails because of an unrecognised argument to libtool (see
>> other thread) - so I thought I'd attempt to build odcctools
>> port, in the expectation that it contains a later version of
>> libtool, which would allow the gcc42 port to build!
>>
>> (In fact, all these efforts stem from the fact that I've not yet
>> succeeded in building a gcc 4.2.0 cross-compiler with
>> host=i386-apple-darwin8, target=powerpc-apple-darwin7 ..... if
>> I could manage that then I would do all my building on the
>> 10.4.10 intel machine!)
>>
>> So, if there's a way to tweak gcc42's build so that it is able
>> to operate with XCode 1.5's cctools, then that would be a good
>> solution to get gcc42 up and running native on the 10.3.9
>> machine for now. I certainly wouldn't advocate resurrecting
>> older versions of odcctools just for this use case!
>
> That's a reason enough for me.  I'll try to look into this tomorrow.

I'm not sure the source is available anymore.  It was on opendarwin.   
If anyone has it, we could put it in MacPorts' distfiles.

yves