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In article
<31014624.702.1327454899075.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbuf18>,
Daryle Walker <darylew@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a August-2002 eMac, a PowerPC G4 system running on Tiger (10.4).  I've
> installed GCC 4.6 on it from MacPorts.  I'm able to compile a "Hello World"
> program from a single file.  However, I just tried making a multi-part
> program and it failed.  The catch is that I didn't let GCC-4.6 do the
> linking; I'm using Boost and its custom Jam, and its steps show that it's
> choking on "/usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: --start-group" while building the
> final product.  (Each source file compiles to an object file just fine.)  I
> guess it's using the built-in linker that Apple supplies, so a Darwin-style
> linker can't process non-Darwin object files.  Is there some sort of
> compatible linker I can download (from MacPorts)?  Or somehow set GCC-4.6 to
> do all the linking?

install apple's xcode, which you can download from apple's developer
site (free to sign up). it will install everything you need (and quite
a bit more).

be sure to get the version that works with tiger, as the current one
will not.