Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

[Chris Jones]

> On 20 Mar 2018, at 8:43 pm, Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas at falkenhahn.com> wrote:
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>> On 20.03.2018 at 21:35 Ken Cunningham wrote:
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>> On 10.5 you installed a prebuilt binary.
>> gcc6 takes 12 to 24 hrs to build on a PPC machine.
> 
> Oh my, that's too much for me, I've just hit CTRL-C. Of course this might leave me with a corrupt installation but I'm just too paranoid about Mac Ports killing my hardware. 
> 
> IMHO there really should be prebuilt binaries for 10.4. It's a waste of energy and resources to have everybody build this on his own...

The user base still using 10.4 is tiny tending to zero. It simply is not worth the effort.

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> Best regards,
> Andreas Falkenhahn                            mailto:andreas at falkenhahn.com
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