> > On 2017-12-06, at 12:19 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > > >> There have been a number of tickets over the past two years that > >> relate to compiler selection on PPC systems. > >> > >> Basically, on PPC, if the default compiler (gcc 4.2 on 10.5, or > >> apple-gcc42 on Tiger) does not work to build a port, the only > >> other compiler that should be then used is gcc6. Maybe someday > >> this might be gcc7, if we fix up the extra errors found in gcc7. > >> > >> Presently, however, PPC systems go down the same compiler > >> selection path as Intel systems. That usually leads to clang 3.3 > >> or clang 3.4 being selected, and this always fails miserably on > >> PPC.
This may be the cause of the problems we're having resurrecting OCaml on the ppc, for what it's worth. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected]
