Success!  The version compiled on 10.4 seems to work on 10.5.8.

Thanks again for the suggestion.




On Oct 16, 7:47 pm, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 10:21 pm, GC <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That's a great thought.  The 10.4 binaries are available, and what's
> > more, the specify that they were compiled on a G4.  I will let you
> > know how that goes.
>
> Great, please do.
>
> > I am at 1.5GHz / 1.25 Gb, so I would love to avoid compiling myself.
>
> That's actually a really good machine for that platform!  I have two
> 10.4 PPC machines, one at 1.25 GHz and one at 770 MHz or something, so
> you would probably 'only' take 4-5 hours to compile Sage.
>
> > I realize the days are numbered for this machine -- Power stopped
> > being supported by mac as of OS 10.6, and every day I find more and
> > more software that is Intel only.
>
> But we are also keenly aware that supporting PPC means we have more
> opportunities to find bugs and make Sage more portable overall, so
> thanks for letting us know; for each person who writes the support
> list, there are surely more who don't, but still download Sage, and we
> want to make it great.
>
> Best,
> - kcrisman

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