pdftk: Installation never completes

[jkorchok@…]

When installing pdftk under Leopard on two separate G4 machines, installation proceeds to:

--->  Building pdftk

but never completes. The Activity Monitor shows ecj1 as consuming 89-97% of processor cycles. Even after letting it run for several days it never quits or raises an error message. This does not appear to occur on Intel processors, though the other open pdftk ticket shows the Intel problem.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Don't forget to use WikiFormatting, to Cc the port's maintainer, and to fill in the Port field.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

pdftk installs in about 5 minutes on my 2.2-GHz MacBook Pro, but takes 2 hours 15 minutes on my 466-MHz Power Mac G4. But several days sounds excessive.

Note that pdftk has a couple variants for choosing a compiler. On my G4 I happened to use the gcc42 variant; you might want to try that instead of the default gcc45 variant. It seems to me that older GCCs work better on PowerPCs and with older Mac OS X versions than newer GCCs do.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

It seems to me that older GCCs work better on PowerPCs and with older Mac OS X versions than newer GCCs do.

Might be a good idea to make gcc42 the default variant on ppc and/or 10.4 then?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Defaulting to gcc42 for PowerPC as of r75945.