> On Jan 14, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Roger Smith <ro...@sentientblue.com> wrote: > >> >> On Jan 13, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Clemens Lang <clemens.l...@bmw-carit.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >>> On 12 Jan 2017, at 23:59, Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com> wrote: >>> >>> As far as I know pseudo and the security introduced in 10.11 that affect >>> preloading is likely the biggest technical problem... everything else is >>> just >>> "it's not Linux”. >> >> With System Integrity Protection disabled, pseudo should still work as it >> did before, if that’s an acceptable step for you. >> >> If it isn’t, Apple’s new limitations can also be worked around in pseudo by >> hooking the exec(2) and posix_spawn(2) syscalls, checking if the binary to >> be executed is under system integrity protection, making a copy without the >> SIP-bit if it is and transparently running that copy instead. That code >> would need to be written, though (Let me know if you want to do that, I have >> the code for a different project.). It’s probably only a matter of time >> until Apple prevents that from working, too, though, e.g. by making some >> standard system tools signed binaries that no longer load preloaded >> libraries. >> >> > > > This topic could have been clarified better, since there are multiple ways to > “build” Yocto Project in MacOS X, > > Is Building Yocto project on a POSIX system, a desire for the Yocto project? > It would allow support on all bsd UNIX’s including macOS >
Many of us use Mac laptops for development, so I think the answer is yes. As Mark mentioned, it has been an issue of time and resources. We would welcome patches :) > > There are many teams inside Apple that use Linux systems for one reason or > another. They would appreciate building open source tools out the door > without some other additional overhead.. > > Replacing a platforms POSIX version of tools with gnu versions because your > build environment didn’t like it, seems like a step backwards for these types > of initiatives. > > Curious to know about long term support for POSIX systems. > > Apple spent alot of time and effor years ago to vertify OS X as POSIX > compliant. > > Roger > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto>
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