> 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
Now that I think of it, I have noticed Peter is using the apple-gcc42 compiler with the +gpl3 components added. That is possibly why he gets this error and I do not. Also, recently we disabled all MacPorts optimizations in the stage 1 build, and that also has been shown to be an issue when bootstrapping gcc at times. Ken
