Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

[Ken Cunningham]

On 10.5 you installed a prebuilt binary.

gcc6 takes 12 to 24 hrs to build on a PPC machine.

I should make my premade binaries available.

K

> On Mar 20, 2018, at 14:32, Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas at falkenhahn.com> wrote:
> 
> <rant>
> 
> So I installed gcc6 on my 10.5 G5 PowerMac a few days ago and it was a breeze.
> It took just a few minutes. It looked like the installer just grabbed the binaries
> and installed them. No big deal at all.
> 
> Now I am trying to install gcc6 on my 10.4 G4 Mac Mini and it seems to build
> everything from sources and it's taking ages. Building apple-gcc42 took two
> hours alone and that was just the first of many packages to come. 
> 
> I'm worried about my hardware because the CPU is at 100% all the time causing
> the Mac Mini fan to be in full ventilation all the time. It has been running
> like that for 3 hours now and there are still many more packages to go. If it's
> going to continue at that speed, I'd estimate the gcc6 installation to take
> about 12 hours or so.
> 
> Where does this difference come from? On my 10.5 G5 PowerMac it really was
> just a few minutes and now it's taking hours. Yes, the G5 is faster but
> certainly not that much. To me it looked as if on 10.5 binaries were
> downloaded and installed whereas on 10.4 everything is built from scratch.
> Is that right?
> 
> If it is, there really should be a warning that this is going to take ages
> because once the thing has been started there's no way out since I don't
> want to interrupt it in the middle of installing for fear of breaking
> something. And I'm worried about my hardware. It's 13 years old and now
> has to run under full stress for hours and hours and hours :-/ Why doesn't
> Mac Ports simply provide ready to run binaries for 10.4 PPC? The current
> installation process feels a little bit like maximum overdose for my
> poor old PPC Mac Mini...
> 
> </rant>
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Andreas Falkenhahn                          mailto:andreas at falkenhahn.com
>