gcc and make

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Nov 17 00:06:00 GMT 2009


freemanlab@sulcus.berkeley.edu (freemanlab) writes:

>  I am trying to get  gcc  going from source-code
>  on a 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 computer with Mac OS
>  X version 10.4.11 .  This requires  make .
>
>  However when I try to get  make  going from
>  source-code, I am informed that a C compiler
>  such as  gcc  is needed.
>
>  Is there a way of installing a C compiler
>  without  make , or vice versa, or some other
>  way to solve this problem?

The usual way out is to get a binary of either make or some compiler
to start with.  On Mac OS I believe you can download binaries from
Apple, under the name xcode or something like that.

Ian



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