Will binaries built in 10.6 still run in 10.5?

[Jeremy Huddleston]

As mentioned, it will run on G4s and G5s.  Of course that should be expected since you are not building with '-mmacosx-version-min' and thus the ppc code being built is for the current OS version (meaning you're probably trying to run it through rosetta which understands ppc7400).  If you want to *really* run it on a G3, then you certainly aren't expecting it to be on OSX 10.6, so you need to specify the minimum OS version appropriately:

~  $ gcc-4.2 -arch ppc -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 test.c 

~  $ lipo -info a.out 
Non-fat file: a.out is architecture: ppc

BTW, this should "just work" when you follow the suggestion mentioned in the very first reply to your thread:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-September/021880.html

On Oct 4, 2010, at 13:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On 10/04/2010 11:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2010, at 14:27, Harry van der Wolf wrote:
>> 
>>> 2010/10/4 Jeremy Huddleston<jeremyhu at macports.org>
>>> 
>>>> gcc-4.2 is the default compiler in Snow Leopard for all supported architectures.  One of my systems is 32bit, and I've never had a problem using it.  What problems are you seeing when using gcc-4.2.1?
>>> 
>>> 32bit ppc or 32bit Intel?
>> 
>> Obviously, if it's running Snow Leopard, it's Intel. Snow Leopard does not run on PowerPC computers.
> 
> I suppose what is meant here is whether the 32bit ppc code generated by 10.6 runs OK on PowerPCs.  They obviously run 10.5 or lower, but 10.6 still supports generating code for them just fine.
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