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| author | tron <tron@pkgsrc.org> | 2009-09-21 15:33:13 +0000 |
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| committer | tron <tron@pkgsrc.org> | 2009-09-21 15:33:13 +0000 |
| commit | c772a9213d6d142e21ed56bf19c809b6eca5fa5e (patch) | |
| tree | b8dce7d4c17c979330c3a8873ade0ea9252beb9e /bootstrap | |
| parent | 850c257200925f31b37d174c6eb3ed3761729c0e (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-c772a9213d6d142e21ed56bf19c809b6eca5fa5e.tar.gz | |
Recommend to manually enforce the use of the 32-Bit API under
Mac OS X Snow Leopard at the moment.
Diffstat (limited to 'bootstrap')
| -rw-r--r-- | bootstrap/README.MacOSX | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bootstrap/README.MacOSX b/bootstrap/README.MacOSX index 181ef8405bf..023c1733518 100644 --- a/bootstrap/README.MacOSX +++ b/bootstrap/README.MacOSX @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -$NetBSD: README.MacOSX,v 1.6 2008/05/09 18:39:54 agc Exp $ +$NetBSD: README.MacOSX,v 1.7 2009/09/21 15:33:13 tron Exp $ Please read "README.Darwin" as well, as everything there also applies to Mac OS X. -File systems +File systems: Previously, pkgsrc needed to be installed on a case-insensitive file system. Starting in 2007, this restriction has been relaxed, and @@ -12,6 +12,17 @@ pkgsrc will work on case-insensitive as well as case sensitive file systems. +Mac OS X Snow Leopard Binary ABI problem: + +Mac OS X Snow Leopard supports 64-Bit binaries on most Intel Macs +and builds those by default on such machine. This causes problems +with a lot of packages which get confused because "MACHINE_ARCH" +is set to "i386" (on a 64-bit system!). There are also packages +that don't support 64-bit under Mac OS X at all. It is therefore +recommended that use the "--abi 32" option of "bootstrap" +under Mac OS X Snow Leopard at the moment. + + Developer tools: If you haven't already, you will need to install the Mac OS X Developer |