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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: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:32:45
Message-Id: 20181211133237.GD28070@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] ppc-macos support by Michael Weiser
1 On 03-07-2018 19:31:11 +0200, Michael Weiser wrote:
2 > Hi Fabian,
3 >
4 > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 03:18:58PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 >
6 > > > Did you try to compile clang with it?
7 > > IIRC clang-3.5.1 can be built, but it can't compile a newer clang.
8 >
9 > I also once spent quite some time on this and found that ld64 mislinked
10 > clang. I think I was trying 3.4.2 at the time and the resulting binary
11 > was bus-erroring.
12 >
13 > That was the reason I added PPC support back into newer versions of ld64
14 > in the hope that the cause of the mislinkage had been fixed
15 > incidentally somehow. But that was not the case. (The newer ld64 linked
16 > no worse either, though. :)
17
18 Indeed, 6.3 (version that can be compiled without issues lacking clang)
19 works very well, and is able to compile @system.
20
21 > A workaround I found was to link the mislinked library (one of the
22 > zillon libLLVM*.dylibs) incrementally. I'm not quite sure any more how I
23 > did that exactly but it produced a working clang.
24
25 Hmm, I wonder if it being a 32-bits linker is part of the problem then.
26
27 For now I deferred clang/llvm, compiler-rt lacks powerpc support last I
28 checked.
29
30 Fabian
31
32 --
33 Fabian Groffen
34 Gentoo on a different level

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