Hi Michael, Thanks for your continued work! I hope to be able to join your efforts, first I'll try to (at last) get the bootstrap use your clang work.
Fabian On 22-04-2015 19:17:04 +0200, Michael Weiser wrote: > Hi, > > I'd just quickly like to point anyone interested to > https://github.com/michaelweiser/ld64 where I've done some work to > forward-port the removed PPC support in ld64 to the latest versions. > > I imagine it might provide a way to retain support for older OS Xes on > PPC without having to keep ancient versions of ld64 packages around. > Also, because the newer versions support all the switches more current > software (like compilers) expect them to have, it might help avoid > having to patch other software for the old linker. > > I was trying to get llvm/clang-3.4.2 working on OS X 10.5 PPC in order > to then move on to 3.6.0 and libc++ but got stuck on a mis-linking issue > with ld64-127.2. The current version doesn't fix that but doesn't seem > to work any worse either. > > I have updated ebuilds for binutils-apple-{4.2,5.1,6.1} floating around > in case anyone's interested in giving them a go themselves. My iBook is > on loan right now so I can't continue to work on it. > -- > Hope it's of use to someone, > Michael > -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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