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From: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
To: 55998@debbugs.gnu.org, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Subject: [bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:28:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7392720.EvYhyI6sBW@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c56e51f000c345e5bf0736a7be9ade3c12a4c96.camel@telenet.be>

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On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 4:07:47 PM EDT Maxime Devos wrote:
> Philip McGrath schreef op wo 15-06-2022 om 15:19 [-0400]:
> > Still, several of the tools are useful (albeit niche) on their own,
> > which is why I sent this patch now. A whole group of tools supports
> > inspecting Mach-O binaries, for example.
> 
> Ok, but the package description is implying a linker is available,
> which is not the case, due to the lack of a Darwin libc in Guix.
> 

Concretely, there is an `ld`, and it runs at least enough to print out a usage 
note.

I can't say for certain *why* it works, though the way LLVM doesn't need a 
different binary for each target and the somewhat unusual way linking to libc 
and other system libraries works on Darwin. Though does a linker really need a 
libc? In principle, it could link things that don't link to libc, or even link 
libc itself.

I haven't tried actually linking anything with this package's `ld`, but, even 
if it turns out to not be fully functional yet, this is the package that 
contains Darwin's `ld`.

I did tweak the description in v2 to replace the reference to `libtool`, 
because Darwin's `libtool` is something completely unrelated than the program 
in the Guix package called `libtool`.

-Philip

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-17 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-15 17:15 [bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 18:32 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 18:45 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 19:06   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 19:35     ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 21:00       ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 21:11         ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 21:20         ` ( via Guix-patches via
2022-06-15 18:53 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 19:19   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 20:07     ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-17 11:28       ` Philip McGrath [this message]
2022-06-15 18:55 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 19:34   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 18:56 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 19:21   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 19:23     ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-17 11:19       ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-15 20:04 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-17 11:09   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-19 21:01   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-15 20:17 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-16 22:29   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-17  6:14     ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 20:18 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-15 20:23 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-16 23:29   ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-17 11:51 ` [bug#55998] [PATCH v2] " Philip McGrath
2022-06-19 21:02   ` bug#55998: [PATCH] " Ludovic Courtès

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