On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 06:55:41AM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote: > > Le 5 sept. 09 à 22:31, Robert Millan a écrit : > >> 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. > > On MacOS you can install external program by compiling it with software > like Fink or MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/)
I see that "gcc44" is listed there (as well as "apple-gcc42" for Apple's version which we're already "aquainted" with). So I take it that we can direct MacOS users to this repository, and they would be able to install a working GCC from it? The alternative would be to figure out the situation with Apple-GCC 4.2. I can ellaborate on that if you'd like. -- 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
