On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Still the time and space required to build GCC is much larger than > that required for building grub. The OS X platform is somewhat exotic > because it uses different object format and non-gnu linker so it is > more likely there will be issues with building GCC. Since the time I > tried GCC is no longer self-containded but relies on additional > libraries that have to be installed separately so the user has to > compile several interdependent packages from source which certainly > requires more planning than just building a single package.
Is there no simple mechanism for installing software on MacOS ? E.g. on Debian one would just use apt-get. I heard about the Fink project, although I haven't used it myself. > The question here is if grub is supposed to be compatible with GNU > systems only We don't have this constraint. It's fine to support non-GNU systems. But as a GNU project, I think it's normal that some of our dependencies are GNU software. Other non-GNU systems (e.g. Solaris) don't seem to have so much trouble. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
