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Re: binutils 2.16 on macosx 10.4.4 not installing
- From: James E Wilson <wilson at specifix dot com>
- To: "Marc D." <list at ryuu dot ca>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:53:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: binutils 2.16 on macosx 10.4.4 not installing
- References: <2AAADF78-E627-43F6-B3DF-D5FC603F4BEE@ryuu.ca>
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:00, Marc D. wrote:
> binutils-build $ (get binutils from gnu.org)
FSF binutils doesn't support Mac OS X. Mac OS X uses the Mach-O object
file format which isn't supported by the FSF tools. If you read the
configure output carefully, it will tell you that gas, ld, etc are not
supported for this target, but that everything else will build OK.
However, if you have binutils sources, then "everything else" is just
some libraries and docs which aren't very useful by themselves.
You have to use the binutils sources available from the Apple developer
web site. This is a heavily hacked version of very old binutils
sources, that has the necessary Mach-O support. But there isn't much
point in trying to build this. It is easier to just grab a cctools
binary package from somewhere, such as from pub/gcc/infrastructure on
the sourceware.org ftp site.
--
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com