[Fink-devel] failing to build gcc42 or gcc4 on an older PowerPC

2008-04-20 Thread Capehart, William J
Hi All: My attempts to build the gnu compilers: gcc4 (4.0.2-3) and gcc42 (42-4.2.2-1000) w/ Fink have met with failure (w/ fink commander, fink plain and fink plain as single user) My machine specs (yes, the machine's long in the tooth but still quite serviceable in most ways except in

Re: [Fink-devel] failing to build gcc42 or gcc4 on an older PowerPC

2008-04-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Capehart, William J wrote: Hi All: My attempts to build the gnu compilers: gcc4 (4.0.2-3) and gcc42 (42-4.2.2-1000) w/ Fink have met with failure (w/ fink commander, fink plain and fink plain as single user) My machine specs (yes, the machine's long in the

Re: [Fink-devel] failing to build gcc42 or gcc4 on an older PowerPC

2008-04-20 Thread Capehart, William J
Ok. .. Here they come for the final few steps of each:: From the gcc4 build failure: ar rc libbackend.a tree-chrec.o tree-scalar-evolution.o tree-data-ref.o tree-cfg.o tree-dfa.o tree-eh.o tree-ssa.o tree-optimize.o tree-gimple.o gimplify.o tree-pretty-print.o tree-into-ssa.o tree-outof-ssa.o

Re: [Fink-devel] failing to build gcc42 or gcc4 on an older PowerPC

2008-04-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
Thanks. Unfortunately it's not obvious what's causing the error to me. :-( gcc4 is outdated, but by rights gcc42 _ought_ to work. Unfortunately, it takes me _days_ to test that, and I'd have to reboot to 10.4, too. In order to save you some time, do the following to get a binary from