Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

Bill Cole macportsusers-20171215 at billmail.scconsult.com
Wed Mar 21 22:19:23 UTC 2018


On 21 Mar 2018, at 14:23, miniupnp wrote:

> On the other hand, it is also fun to read message about someone afraid
> of his hardware burned by a hours long macports buildĀ  :)

This is a serious concern. I've had 3 Macs (Cube, G5 iMac, MacBook) that 
got worse at heat dissipation over time to the point that they could no 
longer do anything CPU-heavy for more than about 15 minutes straight 
without the thermal protection halting the system or in the case of the 
Cube, sometimes NOT halting it before a seemingly hardware-generated 
panic. It's not unreasonable to suspect that as thermal paste ages and 
heat sinks get a layer of insulating dust, the baseline thermal wear is 
a bit higher and high-load events become increasingly risky.


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