BTW, I am happy to make a binary available for you, if you need that. I am considering putting up an entire archive site for Tiger PPC and Intel, and Leopard PPC and Intel, but I haven’t decided whether I want to take on the issues involved.
K > On Mar 26, 2020, at 5:43 PM, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> However, I am stuck on PPC! I am unable to update MacPorts on my belowed >> PowerMac since months - libgcc7 failure. >> Compilation fails because stage2 and stage3 do not compile. >> > > I will admit I do not as yet understand why this error happens sometimes. > > You will see several tickets about this in trac with minimal searching, going > back over the past 2 or 3 years. > > Peter has this issue all the time on his PowerPC. I had never noticed this > issue, until a recent build of gcc7 on a Tiger i386 system, when I got this > too. > > I am not certain if this is due to different dwarf debug symbols, but I can > remember at one point we though this might be the issue. > > I have wondered if the “compare” program was erring when doing the > comparison. > > Sometimes, for no particular reason, just restarting the gcc build again, > without cleaning, can work. > > There is a way to turn off the multiple-building-comparison feature, and just > going straight to one bootstrap (stage1) and one final (stage2) compiler, and > skip the stage3 comparison. > > I don’t think you’d be taking much of a risk doing this — gcc is well-vetted. > > Best, > > Ken
