From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk1vc-0008IB-36 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:32:08 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk1va-0008HK-C3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:32:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk1vV-0008Cu-TR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:32:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56366 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk1vV-0008Cp-Mu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:32:01 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:52359 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk1vU-0006W6-KU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:32:01 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk1vT-0006Kt-4q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:31:59 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk1vS-0003mK-IP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:31:58 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:31:58 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090905203158.GB14485@thorin> References: <20090810114103.GG9344@thorin> <20090901114643.GB25290@thorin> <20090904115930.GB6825@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Report: compil error on OSX for target=i386 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:32:06 -0000 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."