Re: gcc34 -- yikes!

On 8/14/06, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2006, at 02:41, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
> > Has anyone tried to install gcc34 version 3.4.6 on either PPC or
> > Intel arch?
> >
> > I tried a port install of gcc34 on a single processor G4 and it
> > took hours
> > and did not complete so I control-C'ed out of it and cleaned the
> > port rather
> > than using it. On an Intel Mac Mini Duo Core, gcc34 actually failed
> > (I will
> > reattempt the install with a -v to get more verbose output and file
> > a bug
> > report).
>
> There have been reports on this list before that gcc3 is in general not
> compatible with Intel Macs.


I wonder why. Maybe a big endian / little endian issue? Or something more
complicated?

And on PPC Macs I'm unsure why anyone would want such a port, since you can
> just install gcc3 by using the Xcode installer.


Except that Apple opts out of g77 (which has to be opted in when making gcc
3.x) and opts out of gfortran (which has to be opted in when making gcc 4.x
).

http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/fortran.html

... Apple does not provide FORTRAN compilers, though high performance
> FORTRAN compilers are available from third party software developers, such
> as GNU (g77 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/>), Absoft<http://www.absoft.com/>,
> Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG <http://www.nag.com/>), and the high
> performance FORTRAN compiler from IBM (xlf<http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/fortran/>
> ).
>

Regards,

T.