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Kito wrote: |
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> The linker will always be the same for the foreseeable future on any |
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> Darwin/OS X system, the compiler can and will change however...I really |
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> would't be too surprised to see them start shipping ICC at some point... |
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Me neither... I guess it is even guaranteed to be so, as you can get big |
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speedups by using it. |
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> Yeah, pretty much my same thought. The big advantage, is since we can |
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> build from source unlike when relying on Xcode, we can add our own |
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> goodies to make ebuild maintaining a little easier... the -Wl,-z,now |
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> situation comes to mind, patching our ld to deal with those options |
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> would be a far cleaner solution than having to fight it out on -dev@ |
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> trying to get linux folks to change their ways... |
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The same situation would be on Solaris, where using Sun's CC is prefered |
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(speed wise) over GCC. Since Solaris 10 is open source, you would be |
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able to do the same to the linker on Solaris. l33t! |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead |
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