Re: MacPorts / Mac OS X Release for GCC 4.3.2

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Sep 28, 9:24 am, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Sep 19, 10:44 am, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
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> > On Sep 15, 3:45 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
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> Apologies for delay in replying. My ISP has "problems propagating
> News".
>
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> > > 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 ...
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> > 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).

Sorry for the late reply.

FWIW, the results that I obtained (several instances of "can't find
atom") were not by way of Xcode--just a command line gnatmake.

Jerry