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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Message #29 received at 55998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 55998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:21:52 -0400

On 6/15/22 14:56, Maxime Devos wrote:
> Philip McGrath schreef op wo 15-06-2022 om 13:15 [-0400]:
>> +      (native-inputs (list clang-toolchain))
> 
> Why?  Would the standard GCC compiler suffice?
> 

Unfortunately, these tools are tightly coupled to Clang/LLVM and don't 
support GCC. For example, `otool` is a wrapper around `llvm-objdump`.

-Philip
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