Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] What's needed for Leopard support?

[Fabian Groffen]

On 08-11-2007 11:50:40 -0700, Aaron Wilson wrote:
> I've read the warning on the "Bootstram Process" page:
>> Bootstrapping on OS X 10.5 Leopard unfortunately is NOT working at the
>> moment. Please bear with us while we wait for Apple to finally release
>> their sources.
>
> I've noticed that the Darwin 9.0 sources are up (
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/ , what most interests me
> is the new gcc_42-5331 package) and I was wondering what is needed to get
> Leopard bootstrapped and how I can help.

Indeed, it's already in the tree, but it is useless if you also want to
do c++ compilations.

> I've also read the PS from Elias Pipping's email titled "Re: [gentoo-alt]
> Prefix: Python fails to bootstrap on OS X 10.5	Leopard" :
>> PS: For everybody interested in helping: this is the status:
>> * odcctools don't work (and therefore gcc's ebuild doesn't work, haven't
>> looked into this). i'm using /usr/bin/ld and /usr/bin/gcc as a workaround
>> but that's far from optimal. as a result, LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS need to be
>> set in the make.conf. (to the usual -L / -I )
> What is the difference between odcctools and Apple's cctools? Will the new
> cctools-667.3 resolve this?

odcctools have been fixed, and are based on the cctools and ld64 from
10.5

>> * gnupg 2 doesn't work. use gnupg 1 instead.
>> * darwin-miscutils don't work (no big deal, we have those non-prefixed,
>> more recent even)
>> * ghc doesn't work (damn!)
>> * apr doesn't work (and therefore subversion... no big deal, though: we
>> have /usr/bin/svn on leopard)
> What does "doesn't work" mean? Is there a place where these topics are
> discussed in further detail?

Thanks for pointing out that we should probably communicate our progress
for Prefix on Leopard a lot better on the list!


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Fabian Groffen
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