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Re: Host-only port for Mac OS X?
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: Host-only port for Mac OS X?
- From: Mark F Rodriguez <macrod at earthlink dot net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:33:37 -0500
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: macrod at earthlink dot net
Stan please do this ASAP as I'd love to compile the Palm dev tools on Mac OSX.
On Monday, November 6, 2000, at 08:34 PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
> We're seeing a number of users trying to configure/make cross
> compilers using the current GCC sources on the public beta release
> of Mac OS X, but they lose for lack of the basic bits for host support,
> plus a couple tweaks that are unique to OS X.
>
> I had been hoping to have the full native port submitted by now, but
> it's pretty complicated weirdness and currently chokes in stage 2 of
> bootstrapping. So as an interim thing, I was considering contributing
> just the hosting bits. I know we don't favor including half-ports,
> but this would be a good way to increase interest in using mainstream
> GCC on OS X instead of Apple's version, and also gets me out of sending
> patch kits to everybody. :-)
>
> If people think this is a reasonable idea, I'll send in the
> appropriate patches.
>
> Stan
>
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