Re: MacPorts / Mac OS X Release for GCC 4.3.2

[sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>]

On Sep 19, 10:44 am, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 3:45 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:

Apologies for delay in replying. My ISP has "problems propagating
News".

> > 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.

Sorry about that. It looks as though someone else on the team is
upgrading the wiki ...

>
> 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:
...
> 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?

Sorry, can't help (looks as though this compiler is broken for 10.5, &
I don't use Xcode).