Dear Ned

Odd you should say that. The system is the latest version of 10.4 
(10.4.11),  but I did notice that the compiler assumed 10.3. The version 
  of Xcode on this PowerBook G4 is 2.0 (quite old), so perhaps it has 
OSX 10.3 wired in. I don't think that was the issue, but to eliminate it 
I'll download Xcode when I'm at work on Monday (better bandwidth) and 
see if that does a better job.

Cheers (and thanks!)
Michael

Ned Deily wrote:
> Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> added the comment:
> 
>> gcc-4.0 -arch ppc -arch i386 -fno-strict-aliasing ...
>>
>> followed, unsurprisingly, by:
>> gcc-4.0: installation problem, cannot exec
>> 'i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0': No such file or directory
> 
>>From at least OS X 10.4 on, Xcode installs both variants of compilers so 
> it is possible to build both Intel and PPC archs on any system.  I 
> regularly build complete fat Python installers on a PPC G3 running 10.4.
> 
> $ uname -p
> powerpc
> $ i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 
> i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: no input files
> 
> Was this possibly on an older version of OS X, say 10.3?  Otherwise, it 
> sounds like that system did not have a complete installation of Xcode 
> somehow.
> 
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