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| author | gdt <gdt> | 2014-03-18 01:28:26 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt> | 2014-03-18 01:28:26 +0000 |
| commit | b92f04b01e4d2088db98aeb8338c7d1b6b22868b (patch) | |
| tree | 5d589727d51186e157a74a1d847e034f87722467 /bootstrap/README.MacOSX | |
| parent | b8813c3d26594cc19175ac74796fc0bdd1c4b7a1 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-b92f04b01e4d2088db98aeb8338c7d1b6b22868b.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.)
Diffstat (limited to 'bootstrap/README.MacOSX')
| -rw-r--r-- | bootstrap/README.MacOSX | 22 |
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 |