Re: Git, Parrot, Perl6, Rakudo for G4 MAC

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2011, 18:12 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAE1pOi0fqzoz+Af8PaSORuW45UqDAEmqtKW3w4qYH-275BdUzw@mail.gmail.com>

Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> writes:

> On 15 November 2011 02:36, Greg <greggallen@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Could someone please assist me in locating the resources to "GIT"
> >  this stuff going on a G4 MAC PPC?  I
> > keep getting weird bugs.
> > Need me to be more explicit?  Ok - it says gcc v3.3 isn't compatible, and a
> > bunch of other sheet!

Yes, you need to be more explicit. Please copy'n'paste exact error messages that you get compiling Git.

> 
> GCC 3.3 is from May 2003, I suggest you upgrade to a more recent GCC
> (probably 4.6).

I don't have experience compiling Git for PPC, but on i386 I can
compile Git without problems with gcc 4.0.2.

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> > I already have Perl5.10.1 working fine, and performing
> > numerous marvelous tasks, so I (perhaps
> > mistakenly) thought it would be an easy addition.
> 
> Perl 5.10.1 is from August 2009. Presumably less of a problem but,
> again, you should probably upgrade to something more recent.

Git requires Perl version 5.8 at least, so you should not have any
problems here.

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Jakub Narębski