On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:49 -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:24 -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Not a rare case.
On OS X, Apple is in charge of what compilers get bumped when. So the OpenMP stuff is failing at the moment.
I'm trying to make the config do the right thing and allow it to keep building here in Mac-land.
GCC 4.2 appeared in XCode 3.1 which seems to have been released in June.
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/ index.html
Seems that it only runs on 10.5 but will build for 10.3 and higher.
Yes, and many systems are limited to 10.4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5#System_requirements
Machines without G4s? Those without DVD drives?
Seems the first G4 processors were in Summer of 1999:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G4#PowerPC_7400
I think the last shipping G3s were in the iBook with the iBook G4 shipping in Oct. 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#iBook_G4
I think that 5-years is a reasonable deprecation time for hardware running the latest version.
--Ted