[MacPorts] #29172: remove dependency on Xcode
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Wed May 4 12:14:39 PDT 2011
#29172: remove dependency on Xcode
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Reporter: joshmoz@… | Owner: macports-tickets@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: base | Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: | Port:
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Comment(by tobias.netzel@…):
Replying to [ticket:29172 joshmoz@…]:
> I realize this would be a pretty significant change but I'd like for
MacPorts to not depend on Xcode. Xcode now costs money, which means that
MacPorts depends on non-free (as in beer) software. As far as I know there
is no convenient and free developer toolchain on Mac OS X any more. The
MacPorts project is probably in the best position of any project to
provide that.
Did you ever realize there is Gentoo Prefix?[[BR]]
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml [[BR]]
I didn't know of it's existence until a fews days ago but they seem to
provide exactly what you're looking for. It needs Xcode only for
bootstrapping. After that everything gets compiled by it's own
toolchain.[[BR]]
Although I didn't test it they seem to provide clang 2.9 as well as llvm-
gcc-4.2 ready to be built and used on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29172#comment:4>
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