[gentoo-osx] USERLAND thoughts for gentoo on osx

[gentoo-osx] USERLAND thoughts for gentoo on osx

[Armando Di Cianno]

Please ignore that I c&p'd this from my irc client window.  I  
realized leaving little messages on #gentoo-osx isn't the best way to  
get in touch with people! ;-)  Please find my ramblings below.

__armando

fafhrd: anyone out there see my message on this channel yesterday?
[3:00pm] fafhrd: I'm curious about what others feel the "right"  
userland for gentoo/portage on osx is
[3:00pm] fafhrd: meaning, sure, we need to deal with  
USERLAND="BSD" (or "Darwin" as it were) when we bootstrap
[3:01pm] fafhrd: but, after that, can't the equivalent of `emerge  
sysem -e` be run to basically free the libraries from linking against  
the base system?
[3:01pm] fafhrd: anyways, this all started because the current  
bootstrap-prefix script attempts to build Apple's gcc, which fails,  
but gnu gcc builds fine for me
[3:02pm] fafhrd: so I'd like to get some consensus about what kind of  
USERLAND we're aiming for, as I keep hacking on this stuff
[3:02pm] fafhrd: personally, I'd like to move towards building it's  
own internal GNU style USERLAND
[3:02pm] fafhrd: as I have no urge to follow Apple willy nilly
[3:02pm] fafhrd: thoughts?
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Re: [gentoo-osx] USERLAND thoughts for gentoo on osx

[Grobian]

On 24-08-2006 15:06:42 -0400, Armando Di Cianno wrote:
> fafhrd: anyone out there see my message on this channel yesterday?
> [3:00pm] fafhrd: I'm curious about what others feel the "right"  
> userland for gentoo/portage on osx is
> [3:00pm] fafhrd: meaning, sure, we need to deal with  
> USERLAND="BSD" (or "Darwin" as it were) when we bootstrap
> [3:01pm] fafhrd: but, after that, can't the equivalent of `emerge  
> sysem -e` be run to basically free the libraries from linking against  
> the base system?
> [3:01pm] fafhrd: anyways, this all started because the current  
> bootstrap-prefix script attempts to build Apple's gcc, which fails,  
> but gnu gcc builds fine for me
> [3:02pm] fafhrd: so I'd like to get some consensus about what kind of  
> USERLAND we're aiming for, as I keep hacking on this stuff
> [3:02pm] fafhrd: personally, I'd like to move towards building it's  
> own internal GNU style USERLAND
> [3:02pm] fafhrd: as I have no urge to follow Apple willy nilly
> [3:02pm] fafhrd: thoughts?

I assume you are on a MacTel machine, as why GCC won't build.  As for
the userland, yes we aim for a GNU userland, because I have the opinion
that the Gentoo mainline tree is written for that userland.  Diego does
a great job making the tree able to cope with a BSD userland, but to
avoid all these little annoyances with find, awk, etc. in prefix it is
only a small effort to make it a GNU userland.

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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo for Mac OS X Project
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