https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87030
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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CC| |egallager at gcc dot gnu.org,
| |jeremyhu at macports dot org
--- Comment #8 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jack Howarth from comment #7)
> (In reply to Iain Sandoe from comment #6)
> > We are not dependent on the Xcode supplied tools for some time now, since
> > upstream dsymutil is functional. So, if that were to happen - we would
> > simply (as the Linux folks do) build a complete toolchain rather than just
> > the compiler (i have a 'cctools' look-alike driver for the LLVM backend -
> > and an actual cctools assembler with the known bugs fixed).
> >
>
> While using the assembler from llvm should be straight forward enough,
> assuming Apple didn't push its obsoleting of i386 changes upstream, the
> linker would be a tricker issue since the llvm lld code hasn't been kept up
> on the Darwin side for quite some time.
>
> > To assist this, it would be helpful if fink, macports etc. could file radars
> > noting that the open source releases are very out of date for these
> > components (currently 8.2.1 compared with the released Xcode of 10.x)
>
> I pinged Jeremy to see if he can nudge that along.
cc-ing him on this bug, too
