gcc43: build failure on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm unable to install gcc43 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther, with Xcode 1.5, on a 466-MHz Power Mac G4:

$ port install gcc43
--->  Fetching mpfr
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for mpfr
--->  Extracting mpfr
--->  Configuring mpfr
--->  Building mpfr with target all
--->  Staging mpfr into destroot
--->  Installing mpfr @2.3.1_0
--->  Activating mpfr @2.3.1_0
--->  Cleaning mpfr
--->  Fetching gcc43
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gcc43
--->  Extracting gcc43
--->  Configuring gcc43
--->  Building gcc43 with target all
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_lang_gcc43/work/build" && nice -n 2 make all " returned error 2
Command output: checking whether fread_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fwrite_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether getchar_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether putchar_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether putc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether vasprintf is declared... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... no
checking for uchar... 
checking for ld used by GCC... ld
checking if the linker (ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... -liconv
checking for iconv declaration... 
         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, const char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
updating cache ./config.cache
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depdir commands
mkdir -p -- .deps
Makefile:191: *** Insufficient number of arguments (2) to function `patsubst'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [all-stage1-libcpp] Error 2
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
$

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It looks like the same problem was ​reported against gcc42 a year ago, and the suggestion was to use gmake on Mac OS X 10.3.9.

[tobypeterson]

panther, closing

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please don't close bugs for the sole reason that they are reported against Panther, especially if they're not your ports, unless there is documentation that the upstream developers have declared there will be no more Panther support, and we cannot easily provide a workaround.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Whoops, I filed a duplicate #18144.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Added gmake dependency for Panther in r45790 (maintainer timeout). Now we see new errors as reported in #18144.

[(none)]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[tobypeterson]

14 months without a fix clearly indicates that "we cannot easily provide a workaround" - closing.