darwin host?

[Stan Shebs]

Alan Modra wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:34:42PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>>Apple's policy, as I understand it, is to work with the free software
>>community. In practice, as with just about every other vendor I know
>>of who works with GNU, there will be some differences with FSF versions.
>>We don't like having differences, for the purely selfish reason that
>>they make it harder to merge in new FSF sources. On the other hand, if
>>our users need a change that the rest of the GNU developers don't want
>>to include, or if it would take more time and effort than we can afford
>>in order to get a change acceptable for FSF, we're going to keep the
>>change anyway.
>>
>
>I'm not aware that anyone from Apple has even attempted to contribute
>all the binutils changes necessary for a working Darwin toolchain.
>
Klee put in the the BFD support in 2002, in fact the ChangeLog even
lists you as helping with it. :-) The binutils proper we don't use
ourselves (we have a parallel set called the "cctools" that also has
dynamic linker and other things), so it just hasn't been a priority to
do much about any local changes our binutils might have. And I'm pretty
sure nobody wants our patches to gas 1.38!

Stan