Hi,
On 2017-12-12 21:51:45 +0100 Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote:
Usually Trac is better unless you really don't know what to do.
cmake was built successfully on the buildbot.
Ok... fine... I will open an issue on track. I don't see an obvious
error I understand so I ask help.
Does the buildbot run 10.5 x86?
The apple-gcc42 compiler is required to bootstrap everything. The
other two, gcc6 and gcc7 might indeed come from different ports asking
for different compilers, partially for the fact that not all of them
switched to the latest version yet, partially because for a very long
time gcc7 has actually been completely broken on 10.5/ppc. One of the
gcc compilers (6 or 7) might have a chance to be removed, but
apple-gcc42 is pretty important unless we start providing
bootstrapping packages one day.
Thanks for the explanation. My Xcode actually comes with gcc-42 so I
was wondering why.
Perhaps because there are diferent Xcode versions for 10.5 and you
want to be sure to have a consistent compiler? or is it any way
different? It looks just a slightly newer build.
Koreander:tenfourfox-orig multix$ gcc-4.2 --version
i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Koreander:tenfourfox-orig multix$ gcc-apple-4.2 --version
i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-apple-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666)
(dot 3) (MacPorts apple-gcc42 5666.3_15+universal)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Anyway, luckily, for this project, I bought a new HDD for the old
MacBook,
so I have 500MB of space :)
I hope you meant 500 GB?
Yes of course, it would have been a downgrade otherwise :) A modern
HDD is quite nice to use compared to the old small one, it is faster.
I also tried an SSD: it proved quite fast, but then from time to time
the MacBook would show a spinning ball, not a real "freeze" since it
would operate extremely slow and sometimes recover. I did not
understand why it happened. I read that some SATA3 drives have issues
being backward compatible, but that would explain that I could build
for hours without a hiccup.
I think "swap" was an issue and also awakeing from sleep.
Just sharing my experience, this is quite off topic.
Riccardo
