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authorgdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2014-03-18 01:28:26 +0000
committergdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2014-03-18 01:28:26 +0000
commit2bf358fd7589c4ce6f2d7f0a6da93ecbe5fe02d0 (patch)
tree5d589727d51186e157a74a1d847e034f87722467
parent05ddd92eef5b90286b91dfce41ff291f801a6746 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-2bf358fd7589c4ce6f2d7f0a6da93ecbe5fe02d0.tar.gz
Explain problems with sed.
Basically: 10.9's sed is broken, bootstrap works around this via nbsed on 10.9, and therefore while a 10.6 boostrap's binaries will *run* on 10.9, one can't reliably build new packages. (Thanks to jperkin@ for pointing this out.)
-rw-r--r--bootstrap/README.MacOSX22
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bootstrap/README.MacOSX b/bootstrap/README.MacOSX
index eaffc9a5221..296bcef284e 100644
--- a/bootstrap/README.MacOSX
+++ b/bootstrap/README.MacOSX
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
-$NetBSD: README.MacOSX,v 1.16 2014/03/17 17:12:58 gdt Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.MacOSX,v 1.17 2014/03/18 01:28:26 gdt Exp $
-* gcc vs clang
+* system tools issues
+
+** gcc vs clang
Older versions of Mac OS X (with XCode, of course) provided gcc, and
pkgsrc defaulted to using gcc. With 10.9, gcc is no longer present
and one must bootstrap with "--compiler=clang". (Arguably, pkgsrc
should default to clang on 10.9.)
-* i386 vs x86_64 ABI issue
+** i386 vs x86_64 ABI issue
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) through Mavericks (10.9) supports 64-bit
binaries on most Intel Macs and build those by default on such
@@ -29,6 +31,12 @@ http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc-users/2009/09/24/msg010817.html
As of 2014, the decision to default to i386 should probably be
revisited.
+** sed in 10.9
+
+The sed that comes with 10.9 appears to be broken; it exits when
+called on files with UTF-8 or other apparently-binary content.
+Therefore, pkgsrc uses nbsed on 10.9.
+
* Developer tools and prerequisites
** basic tools
@@ -133,6 +141,8 @@ Clearly, it is desirable for a bulk build to be useful on as many
computers as possible. The main issues are which ABI and which OS X
version.
+** 10.6, --abi=32
+
jperkin@netbsd.org provides a bulk build for quarterly branches
(--abi=32, OSX 10.6, and therefore gcc 4.2.1, XQuartz,
X11_TYPE=native):
@@ -140,6 +150,12 @@ X11_TYPE=native):
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2014/01/10/msg010276.html
which should run on any version from 10.6 to 10.9.
+Note that sed on 10.9 is broken, but a bootstrap on 10.6 will not
+avoid it, so while one can install this bootstrap on 10.9 and run
+binary packages, building packages will not in general work.
+
+** 10.9, --abi=64 --compiler=clang
+
Given the 10.9 license situation, a bulk build on 10.9 (and therefore
clang) seems reasonable, with either --abi=32 or --abi=64. Such
builds are almost certainly only usable on 10.9, but that is or will