On 27 Nov 2014, at 08:35, Herbert Duerr wrote:
For building older versions of OpenOffice on Mac please see [1].
I think what you are saying is that there are dependencies in the
code that require 10.7. If this is the case then the error reported
should be that the system is not supported (and why), rather than the
gcc version is incorrect.
It requires XCode 2 or XCode 3, both of which are not easy to get
nowadays. They are also almost impossible to install on current
systems. For these older versions the page also documents the
requirement to compile with the 10.4 SDK.
Actually, these versions of Xcode are easy enough to get (I
downloaded 3.2.6 just a few days ago), and at least with 3.x the
option is there in the install to include support for 10.4. The old
versions of Xcode are here (Xcode 2.3-6.1 for download, just search
for "Xcode"):
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
Please see above. The build system was quite outdated, the build
requirements were more than obsolete and targeted platforms that
were no longer supported by Apple. Also many other vendors like
Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, etc. had already dropped support
for these old platforms.
When we did the overdue refresh for newer platforms we also used
the opportunity to switch to 64bit. It would have been possible to
get it work on OSX10.6 too, but it was already unsupported by Apple
then and nobody was interested to put work into backporting the
stuff [3].
Thanks for the note. I think the issue is that all the companies you
name have a commercial interest in obsolescence, I'm not sure what
the incentive for the Apache foundation would be in supporting that
business model. From my own perspective, and I am probably in a small
minority, my interest in supporting older systems (ie up to 10.6) is
because they are able to run PPC and classic apps, which 10.7 is
unable to do. I'm pretty sure I have Apache and MySQL running on such
systems.
-- Clive
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