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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] ppc-macos support
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:19:07
Message-Id: 20180629131858.GG1205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] ppc-macos support by Konstantin Tokarev
1 On 29-06-2018 15:14:21 +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > 29.06.2018, 11:25, "Fabian Groffen" <grobian@g.o>:
5 > > For whoever is interested in this.
6 > >
7 > > Just as a pet-project of mine, I recently re-vamped ppc-macos support in
8 > > Prefix. I've only done Leopard (10.5), don't think my enthusiasm spans
9 > > to Tiger (10.4). :)
10 > >
11 > > Because clang really doesn't want to work/compile at all on PowerPC
12 > > (missing implementations for atomics and more) I decided to use FSF
13 > > gcc-7.3.0 instead. It compiles out of the box, and allows to use newer
14 > > C++ standards (the real problem with newer software basically).
15 > >
16 > > At some point I was able to bootstrap, it currently is probably broken,
17 > > because FSF GCC can't compile binutils-apple and csu.
18 >
19 > Did you try to compile clang with it?
20
21 IIRC clang-3.5.1 can be built, but it can't compile a newer clang.
22
23 > > I "fixed" the
24 > > latter by requiring gcc-apple-4.2.1, and could do the same for binutils,
25 > > but I was hoping to get binutils-apple-7.3.1 compiling, as that version
26 > > is much more recent and has some experimental PPC support (added back).
27 > >
28 > > I don't know if anyone is (like me, crazy enough) interested in
29 > > ppc-macos, but if there is, at least this is the headsup :)
30 > >
31 > > Thanks,
32 > > Fabian
33 > >
34 > > --
35 > > Fabian Groffen
36 > > Gentoo on a different level
37 >
38 > --
39 > Regards,
40 > Konstantin
41 >
42 >
43
44 --
45 Fabian Groffen
46 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] ppc-macos support Michael Weiser <michael@×××××××××××××××.net>