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Hi Michael, |
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Thanks for your continued work! I hope to be able to join your efforts, |
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first I'll try to (at last) get the bootstrap use your clang work. |
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Fabian |
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On 22-04-2015 19:17:04 +0200, Michael Weiser wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'd just quickly like to point anyone interested to |
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> https://github.com/michaelweiser/ld64 where I've done some work to |
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> forward-port the removed PPC support in ld64 to the latest versions. |
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> I imagine it might provide a way to retain support for older OS Xes on |
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> PPC without having to keep ancient versions of ld64 packages around. |
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> Also, because the newer versions support all the switches more current |
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> software (like compilers) expect them to have, it might help avoid |
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> having to patch other software for the old linker. |
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> I was trying to get llvm/clang-3.4.2 working on OS X 10.5 PPC in order |
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> to then move on to 3.6.0 and libc++ but got stuck on a mis-linking issue |
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> with ld64-127.2. The current version doesn't fix that but doesn't seem |
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> to work any worse either. |
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> I have updated ebuilds for binutils-apple-{4.2,5.1,6.1} floating around |
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> in case anyone's interested in giving them a go themselves. My iBook is |
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> on loan right now so I can't continue to work on it. |
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> -- |
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> Hope it's of use to someone, |
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> Michael |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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