On Aug 26, 2025, at 18:00, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > This leads into my next question: > > Please forgive me for asking a redundant question, I'm sure this has > been asked many times before, but there doesn't appear an easy way to > search the entire archives of this mailing list, and looking back > through the past six months didn't show any Subject lines relevant to > this topic. Nor did a Google Search turn up any good results. > > How can I cross-compile ports for my PowerPC Mac on Tiger? > Specifically, this is a WallStreet. > > Needless to say, the compilation times are absolutely ridiculous on a > G3. For comparison, I started "port install bash" on my DP 1.8 PMG5 on > Leopard as well. It's been building gcc14 for 48+ hours. At this > rate, I estimate the WallStreet may be done by Christmas... > > Please advise.
MacPorts support for Tiger ended with the release of MacPorts 2.11.0 which requires Leopard or newer. Cross compiling for another OS version or arch is technically a feature of MacPorts however it is not tested often, so many ports are likely not to support this feature properly. But the way to do it is to dedicate a MacPorts installation to that task and set macosx_deployment_target and build_arch in macports.conf as desired.
