Thank you very much for the tip. Installing using the +gcc42 option allowed installation to proceed normally on both Leopard G4 and Intel platforms.
John Korchok > -----Original Message----- > From: MacPorts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 3:58 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MacPorts] #27706: pdftk: Installation never completes > > #27706: pdftk: Installation never completes > ----------------------------------+--------------------------- > ---------- > ----------------------------------+---- > Reporter: jkorc...@. | Owner: > ryandes...@. > Type: defect | Status: new > > Priority: Normal | Milestone: > > Component: ports | Version: 1.9.2 > > Keywords: | Port: pdftk > > ----------------------------------+--------------------------- > ---------- > ----------------------------------+---- > > Comment(by ryandes...@.): > > pdftk installs in about 5 minutes on my 2.2-GHz MacBook Pro, > but takes 2 hours 15 minutes on my 466-MHz Power Mac G4. But > several days sounds excessive. > > Note that pdftk has a couple variants for choosing a > compiler. On my G4 I happened to use the gcc42 variant; you > might want to try that instead of the default gcc45 variant. > It seems to me that older GCCs work better on PowerPCs and > with older Mac OS X versions than newer GCCs do. > > -- > Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27706#comment:2> > MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> > Ports system for Mac OS > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
