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From: Aaron Wilson <tallest@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] What's needed for Leopard support?
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:10:50
Message-Id: 6F2B87A4-BC54-4BB4-9C8A-FF9F8ECEB979@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] What's needed for Leopard support? by Fabian Groffen
1 Thanks very much, I guess I'll just have to be patient. As always, I
2 couldn't be more grateful for the work that is put into prefixed
3 Gentoo portage. OS X with prefixed portage is by far my favourite
4 environment to date. Thanks!
5
6 Aaron
7
8 On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
9
10 > On 08-11-2007 11:50:40 -0700, Aaron Wilson wrote:
11 >> I've read the warning on the "Bootstram Process" page:
12 >>> Bootstrapping on OS X 10.5 Leopard unfortunately is NOT working at
13 >>> the
14 >>> moment. Please bear with us while we wait for Apple to finally
15 >>> release
16 >>> their sources.
17 >>
18 >> I've noticed that the Darwin 9.0 sources are up (
19 >> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/ , what most
20 >> interests me
21 >> is the new gcc_42-5331 package) and I was wondering what is needed
22 >> to get
23 >> Leopard bootstrapped and how I can help.
24 >
25 > Indeed, it's already in the tree, but it is useless if you also want
26 > to
27 > do c++ compilations.
28 >
29 >> I've also read the PS from Elias Pipping's email titled "Re:
30 >> [gentoo-alt]
31 >> Prefix: Python fails to bootstrap on OS X 10.5 Leopard" :
32 >>> PS: For everybody interested in helping: this is the status:
33 >>> * odcctools don't work (and therefore gcc's ebuild doesn't work,
34 >>> haven't
35 >>> looked into this). i'm using /usr/bin/ld and /usr/bin/gcc as a
36 >>> workaround
37 >>> but that's far from optimal. as a result, LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
38 >>> need to be
39 >>> set in the make.conf. (to the usual -L / -I )
40 >> What is the difference between odcctools and Apple's cctools? Will
41 >> the new
42 >> cctools-667.3 resolve this?
43 >
44 > odcctools have been fixed, and are based on the cctools and ld64 from
45 > 10.5
46 >
47 >>> * gnupg 2 doesn't work. use gnupg 1 instead.
48 >>> * darwin-miscutils don't work (no big deal, we have those non-
49 >>> prefixed,
50 >>> more recent even)
51 >>> * ghc doesn't work (damn!)
52 >>> * apr doesn't work (and therefore subversion... no big deal,
53 >>> though: we
54 >>> have /usr/bin/svn on leopard)
55 >> What does "doesn't work" mean? Is there a place where these topics
56 >> are
57 >> discussed in further detail?
58 >
59 > Thanks for pointing out that we should probably communicate our
60 > progress
61 > for Prefix on Leopard a lot better on the list!
62 >
63 >
64 > --
65 > Fabian Groffen
66 > Gentoo on a different level
67 > --
68 > gentoo-alt@g.o mailing list
69 >
70
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Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] What's needed for Leopard support? Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>