Host-only port for Mac OS X?

[Mark F Rodriguez]

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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