Subject: [bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:53:47 +0200

Philip McGrath schreef op wo 15-06-2022 om 13:15 [-0400]:
> +      (synopsis "Darwin's @code{cctools} and @code{ld64}")
> +      ;; Confusingly enough, the program is called ld64, but the command is
> +      ;; just ld (with no symlink), so @command{ld64} would be wrong.
> +      (description
> +       "Darwin's @code{cctools} are a set of tools somewhat similar in purpose
> +to GNU Binutils, but for Mach-O files targeting Darwin.  The suite includes
> +@command{install_name_tool}, @command{libtool}, and other specialized tools in
> +addition to standard utilities like @command{ld} and @command{as}.  This
> +package provides portable versions of the tools.")
> +      (license license:apsl2))))

How can this work? We don't have any (cross-compiled) Darwin libc
libraries to let it link against. Is this a draft patch?

Greetings,
Maxime.