Re: fail to compile xz - unknown type name 'clockid_t'; did you mean 'clock_t'

2018-03-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 22, 2018, at 18:26, Qianqian Fang wrote: > I don't know if this si common, but when I tried to install gdb (because my > lazarus 1.8 complains about missing gdb) using > > sudo port install gdb > > I got an error when installing the dependency package xz, with the following > error >

fail to compile xz - unknown type name 'clockid_t'; did you mean 'clock_t'

2018-03-22 Thread Qianqian Fang
Dear list, I don't know if this si common, but when I tried to install gdb (because my lazarus 1.8 complains about missing gdb) using |sudo port install gdb| I got an error when installing the dependency package xz, with the following error my port was updated and has the latest version.

Re: Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

2018-03-22 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 06:59:01PM +, Christopher Jones wrote: > If it where my choice, I would drop OSX releases < say 10.10… It > isn’t, and thats fine, but thats just my opinion. In case you were not aware, that's more or less our policy. We officially support current - 3, that's 10.10

Re: Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

2018-03-22 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 22.03.2018 at 19:59 Christopher Jones wrote: > Lets leave this here, as we aren’t going to agree on this it seems. It has never been my aim to make you agree with me. I was just trying to make it a little more plausible why some people might still want to stick with outdated software ;-) --

Re: Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

2018-03-22 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi > On 22 Mar 2018, at 5:21 pm, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > > On 20.03.2018 at 23:59 Chris Jones wrote: > >> You can call these OSes ‘retro’ if you want, to make it sound good, >> but all they really are, are outdated and insecure. > > By the way, another reason to use "outdated and insecure"

Re: Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

2018-03-22 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 20.03.2018 at 23:59 Chris Jones wrote: > You can call these OSes ‘retro’ if you want, to make it sound good, > but all they really are, are outdated and insecure. By the way, another reason to use "outdated and insecure" operating systems from a programmer's point of view is backwards compatib