darwin may lose primary target status on FSF gcc

[Jack Howarth]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:19:38AM +0000, Eric Hall wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:57:53PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:46:57PM +0000, Eric Hall wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:38:15PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > > >   There is hope! We have an analysis of the exact
> > > > breakage in eh under 10.6 for gcc trunk...
> > > > 
> > > > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2009-September/025908.html
> > > > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2009-September/025909.html
> > > > 
> > > > The breakage in gcc trunk is due to the additional epilog unwind
> > > > information which darwin's unwinder (which is always used under
> > > > 10.6 since symbols in libgcc-10.5 always come from libSystem)
> > > > doesn't understand. The possible fixes are either to 1) not add
> > > > the additional epilog unwind information on darwin or 2) have
> > > > the gcc driver on darwin implicitly pass -no_compact_unwind to
> > > > the link line. Cheers.
> > > >            Jack
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Did someone care somewhere in here?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > If anyone here cares whether gcc 4.5.0 exists in a usable form
> > on darwin10, I should hope so. These were courtesy emails for
> > the gcc44 maintainers here to let the know that someone is
> > working the issue. If darwin support for gcc isn't tended to
> > you'll eventually stuck running g95 (oh..wait...g95 doesn't
> > build on darwin10...never mind).
> 
> 
> 	Huh, funny, this 'Xcode' thingy installs a compiler,
> seems like it works too.  I'm thinking that sort of thing
> is going to continue in the future.
> 	Is there a reason there's ongoing discussion of
> gcc 4.x on a macports related list instead of on a gcc
> list?
> 
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Gee, I must be missing something from my SL Xcode
installation....where is the fortran *thingy*?
              Jack
ps No one is forcing you to read the posts.