Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] removal of some Prefix keywords

[Michael Weiser]

Hi Fabian,

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 08:18:29AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:

> > I have a couple of iBook G4s sitting around and wanted to get
> > llvm/clang-3.4+ going on them. But realistically, that effort is stalled
> > and not likely to be revived.
> I acquired two powermac G5s, one quad core (the latest/fastest ever
> made) another with a single 1.8GHz core.  Both have 6GB+ RAM.  I'm
> planning to put them into play, with the option of opening up to others
> to try/work on them.  Let me know if you're interested, at the moment
> they are not online yet.

Since I don't have an actual use-case for any PPC Mac any more, getting
llvm to work was of purely academic interest. When even the most current
ld mis-linked it and, after getting it to link, clang still bus-error'd
I threw in the towel. I'd be happy to consult if anyone else wanted to
give it another go.

> > BTW: Is there an OS X version support cutoff for x86/x64-macos? I'd
> > guess, no one is really running 10.4/10.5 on Intel hardware any more, or
> > is there?
> That said, I considered weeding the profiles, and only support 10.5
> (Darwin 9) for ppc (maybe ppc64), and keep the last 3 or 4 releases for
> Intel.  Realistically speaking noone is testing the older editions any
> more because Apple is insisting on upgrading.

I weeded patches for ppc, gcc and macOS < 10.6 from binutils-apple-8.1
yesterday to see what would happen. This got rid of 14 patches and left
21. This should certainly ease updating in the future.
-- 
bye,
Micha