My recollection of the PowerPC Mac era is that compiling anything open-source was fraught with challenges. My system would typically end up with acres of cruft and one-off hacks just to get things to build.
Life's different in 2020: there's Docker and, if you can tolerate the attitude, Homebrew. It should be easier this time around. But I'd be wary of moving to ARM quite yet for anything that requires manual compilation. I'm certainly not going to make the leap until I've seen that other people have successfully built some of the more esoteric parts of the toolchain I use.
Life's different in 2020: there's Docker and, if you can tolerate the attitude, Homebrew. It should be easier this time around. But I'd be wary of moving to ARM quite yet for anything that requires manual compilation. I'm certainly not going to make the leap until I've seen that other people have successfully built some of the more esoteric parts of the toolchain I use.