I'm one of the guys who run a 10.4 G4 "just because I can". Some call it retro computing :) I'm glad macports still supports it and try to help to fix things when a port is not building on it.
but I'm not expecting the project to spend resources in building binaries for this kind of system. When I need something, I just launch the "port install" command before going to bed and let the build take the time it takes. It's quite fun to read exhortations to use upgrade to a more recent system. I'm trying to imagine which hacker could spend time to exploit Mac PPC machines to include them in a bitcoin mining botnet ;) On the other hand, it is also fun to read message about someone afraid of his hardware burned by a hours long macports build :) Regards Le 20.03.2018 à 23:55, Chris Jones a écrit : >> On 20 Mar 2018, at 8:43 pm, Andreas Falkenhahn <andr...@falkenhahn.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 20.03.2018 at 21:35 Ken Cunningham wrote: >>> >>> On 10.5 you installed a prebuilt binary. >>> gcc6 takes 12 to 24 hrs to build on a PPC machine. >> Oh my, that's too much for me, I've just hit CTRL-C. Of course this might >> leave me with a corrupt installation but I'm just too paranoid about Mac >> Ports killing my hardware. >> >> IMHO there really should be prebuilt binaries for 10.4. It's a waste of >> energy and resources to have everybody build this on his own... > The user base still using 10.4 is tiny tending to zero. It simply is not > worth the effort.
