libgcc 5.1.0 not building on 10.6.8

[clykou@…]

I am trying to install numpy, scipy and astropy on my machine (an old 10.6.8 with dual core) and these keep telling me that they must install libgcc as one of the dependencies.

But each time I have tried to install this one, building it takes at least 2 hours (I have waited for a max. 3 hours) even when both cores of the CPU are working and I just have to cancel it, as I also need to do some actual work with that machine! What is it that makes it take longer than 2 hours? Should I be more worried? Is it because the OS is so old? Any help will be most welcome!

workmac:~$ sudo port install libgcc
--->  Fetching archive for libgcc
--->  Attempting to fetch libgcc-5.1.0_1.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/libgcc
      [                                        ]   0.0 %        speed: 0 B/s        --->  Attempting to fetch libgcc-5.1.0_1.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/libgcc
--->  Attempting to fetch libgcc-5.1.0_1.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/libgcc
--->  Fetching distfiles for libgcc
--->  Verifying checksums for libgcc
--->  Extracting libgcc
--->  Applying patches to libgcc
--->  Configuring libgcc
--->  Building libgcc
^C

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

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[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

There is almost certainly no problem here. Compilers usually take a long time to build — even on new hardware — and GCC is no exception. The age of your machine does not help.

Many users don’t notice this because they receive our prebuilt binary archives. Unfortunately, our Buildbot buildslave for Snow Leopard has been down for some time, so we don’t have binaries for the latest revisions of the GCC ports.

If you’d like, try running sudo port -d install libgcc to print debug and build output to the terminal; this should convince you that nothing is frozen or stalled. You might want to let it run overnight.

If you do experience a build failure, please open a new ticket.