Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Mar 20 22:56:27 UTC 2018



> On 20 Mar 2018, at 8:48 pm, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas at falkenhahn.com> wrote:
>> 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...
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> IMHO we shouldn't do anything to support Mac OS versions that aren't getting security patches from Apple anymore (since it's a dis-service to the rest of the people who use the internet when we make it easier for people to keep unpatched machines connected to that shared resource).

Glad someone else has the same view on this as me. Completely agree.

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> if you really want it, it's possible for anyone to run a 10.4 build machine and share archives: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/ShareArchives2
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> Daniel J. Luke
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