On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Robert Millan<r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > 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. > MacOSX has "software package" which is technically similar to .deb but no repositories. Apple's gcc is shipped on installation DVDs and as such is ready-available to the user. >From third-hand reports I have an information that macports package GCC but not GNU binutils. I made the whole apple 's CC port in response to a report by potential developper than he didn't succeed to install required packages even after long fiddling with macports Ruby and autoconf is shipped as a part of normal development tools package (available on OSX install DVD among other places) >> 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. > Yes but you can't force user to install more GNU than he wants. If supporting Apple's CC gets in the way of developpement I'll say ditching its support is a natural step. But I don't ask to hold back any code nor to test Every build with Apple's CC or maintain its support. Just accept simple fixes for it if it doesn't affect other systems
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