I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: https://github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

#gcc #compiler #compilers #c #unix #linux #macos #macosx #osx #apple #powerpc #retro #retrocomputing #bsd #mac #macintosh

find is the command that embodies the spirit #unix for me. Questionable aesthetics, does too much and too little at the same time, includes ways to shot yourself in the foot, but you always find new ways to use it.

https://git.sr.ht/~puercopop/yt2m/commit/0938fa26c47bbcbadd415513c6c090fb4822e1c6

Writing on #CommonLisp logical pathnames. Terribly undocumented and (it seems) wildly under-designed feature.

Still, logical pathnames are super useful for portable and “smart” file resolution. There's not even a remotely similar thing in most systems. Think #unix symlinks, but with pattern-matching and variables in resolution. Cool stuff, despite the problems.

Had Dennis Ritchie, Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond as my answers in the final. ESR isn't on the list in question but Ritchie and RMS were pointless.

[Edit: typo]

#pointless #PointlessCelebrities #UNIX #gnu

The BSDCan streams can be found on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/@BsdcanOrg along with recordings from earlier conferences.

Also see https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/ for livestream info

#bsdcan #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware