Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

[miniupnp]

I'm one of the guys who run a 10.4 G4 "just because I can". Some call it
retro computing :)
I'm glad macports still supports it and try to help to fix things when a
port is not building on it.

but I'm not expecting the project to spend resources in building
binaries for this kind of system.
When I need something, I just launch the "port install" command before
going to bed and let the build take the time it takes.

It's quite fun to read exhortations to use upgrade to a more recent
system. I'm trying to imagine which hacker could spend time to exploit
Mac PPC machines to include them in a bitcoin mining botnet ;)
On the other hand, it is also fun to read message about someone afraid
of his hardware burned by a hours long macports build  :)

Regards


Le 20.03.2018 à 23:55, Chris Jones a écrit :
>> On 20 Mar 2018, at 8:43 pm, Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas at falkenhahn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 20.03.2018 at 21:35 Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.