Re: darwin host?

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Alan Modra wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:34:42PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
> > Apple's policy, as I understand it, is to work with the free software
> > community. In practice, as with just about every other vendor I know
> > of who works with GNU, there will be some differences with FSF versions.
> > We don't like having differences, for the purely selfish reason that
> > they make it harder to merge in new FSF sources. On the other hand, if
> > our users need a change that the rest of the GNU developers don't want
> > to include, or if it would take more time and effort than we can afford
> > in order to get a change acceptable for FSF, we're going to keep the
> > change anyway.
>
> I'm not aware that anyone from Apple has even attempted to contribute
> all the binutils changes necessary for a working Darwin toolchain.
Klee put in the the BFD support in 2002, in fact the ChangeLog even
lists you as helping with it. :-) The binutils proper we don't use
ourselves (we have a parallel set called the "cctools" that also has
dynamic linker and other things), so it just hasn't been a priority to
do much about any local changes our binutils might have. And I'm pretty
sure nobody wants our patches to gas 1.38!

Stan