From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MkJ93-0000Rm-TN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:55:09 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MkJ92-0000Pb-Ke for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:55:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MkJ8w-0000Gr-K0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:55:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47434 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MkJ8w-0000Gh-7F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:55:02 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:57367 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 1MkJ8v-0000G2-Or for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:55:01 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MkJ8r-000100-DP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:54:57 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MkJ8q-0000w7-RR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:54:56 +0200 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:54:56 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090906145456.GA3548@thorin> References: <20090810114103.GG9344@thorin> <20090901114643.GB25290@thorin> <20090904115930.GB6825@thorin> <20090905203158.GB14485@thorin> <244FA39F-B89C-4233-8860-2EC26392A585@zetam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <244FA39F-B89C-4233-8860-2EC26392A585@zetam.org> 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: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:55:08 -0000 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."