Re: MacPorts / Mac OS X Release for GCC 4.3.2

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Sep 15, 3:45 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> writes:
> > However, there has been no Ada 2005 compiler that runs under OS X 10.5
> > on PPC architecture. (The MacAda group has not been helpful in this
> > regard.) As a result, I haven't been able to upgrade to 10.5.
>
> Do you think there's any chance that the GNAT/GPL 2007 compiler I built
> for Tiger/PPC would run on Leopard? It uses static libraries, maybe
> there's a chance .. I moved to Intel Mac after that, so never upgrated
> the Powerbook to Leopard.
>
> http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Install/MacOS-GPL
>
> --S

The link you provided pretty much goes to a dead end, but I think I
found the right link.

I installed OS X 10.5.4 on a spare disk. I downloaded from
sourceforuge the 2007-tiger-ppc compiler dated January 12, 2008 and
put it in /opt. I tried to compile a hello world and failed. Here is
what happened:

jb$ /opt/gnat-gpl-2007/bin/gnatmake /Volumes/HD0/hello.adb
gcc -c -I/Volumes/HD0/ -I- /Volumes/HD0/hello.adb
gnatbind -x hello.ali
gnatlink hello.ali
can't find atom for N_GSYM stabs
system__standard_library__constraint_error_def:G(0,16)=B(0,17)=xssystem__standard_library__exception_data:
in /opt/gnat-gpl-2007/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0/4.1.3/adalib/
libgnat.a(s-stalib.o)

There are 10 more lines that start with "can't find atom."

Any idea on what to do next? I'm going to be also bothering the macada
list about this, which raises the question, If I succeed in getting a
compiler somehow, will the Xcode plugin from macada still work if I
don't use a macada compiler?

Jerry