I am having difficulty building the server on an OS X 10.5 PPC machine. I have successfully built on a 10.6 intel machine, but it is a laptop unsuitable for using an a server.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how to overcome this.

The error I have encountered is in the QBacktrace.c file with the following output:

mac/QBacktrace.c: In function 'PowerPCHandleLeaf':
mac/QBacktrace.c:1040: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state' has no member named 'srr0'
mac/QBacktrace.c:1041: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state' has no member named 'lr'
mac/QBacktrace.c:1042: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state' has no member named 'r1'
mac/QBacktrace.c:1045: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state64' has no member named 'srr0'
mac/QBacktrace.c:1046: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state64' has no member named 'lr'
mac/QBacktrace.c:1047: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state64' has no member named 'r1'
mac/QBacktrace.c: In function 'QBTCreateThreadStateSelf':
mac/QBacktrace.c:2460: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state' has no member named 'srr0'
mac/QBacktrace.c:2461: error: 'struct __darwin_ppc_thread_state' has no member named 'r1'
make[2]: *** [libboinc_la-QBacktrace.lo] Error 1

I forwarded your plight to the developer for the Mac, earlier. Here's what he replied to me.

Sorry, we don't support using Macs for BOINC servers, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. WE just don't support it.

That said, he needs to use the OS 10.4 SDK, which should solve this problem. He can find some information about how to do this in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BuildMacApp and by looking at boinc/mac_build/buildcurl.sh in the SVN trunk and
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/cross_development/Configuring/configuring.html%23 in the section "Configuring a Makefile-Based Project".

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