Re: Report: compil error on OSX for target=i386

[Yves Blusseau]

Le 6 sept. 09 à 16:54, Robert Millan a écrit :

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

because it uses different object format and non-gnu linker so it is

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.

that required for building grub. The OS X platform is somewhat exotic more likely there will be issues with building GCC. Since the time I

on
Debian one would just use apt-get.  I heard about the Fink project,
although I haven't used it myself.

Is there no simple mechanism for installing software on MacOS ? E.g.

like Fink or MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/)

On MacOS you can install external program by compiling it with software

version which we're already "aquainted" with).


would be able to install a working GCC from it?

I see that "gcc44" is listed there (as well as "apple-gcc42" for Apple's So I take it that we can direct MacOS users to this repository, and they

Look at my previous post:



checking whether target compiler is working... no
configure: error: cannot compile for the target




ld: unknown option: --defsym
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Regards,
Yves Blusseau

I have tried to compil with a mac port of gcc 4.4 but configure report an error (about the linker): and if i look into the config.log it's because it use the default apple linker tool witch don't recognize some arguments: configure:5882: gcc-mp-4.4 -o conftest -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer- arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -g -Os -falign- jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -m32 - fno-stack-protector -mno-stack-arg-probe -nostdlib -Wl,-- defsym,___main=0x8100 -m32 conftest.c >&5

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