GNU bug report logs - #55998
[PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>, 55998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:53:47 +0200

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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.

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