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Re: darwin host?

Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:

> >The GNU binutils don't support the Mach-O object file format used on
> >OS X.  Talk to Apple.
> >
> However, BFD does supposedly, see bfd/mach-o.c and friends. Not obvious
> why it's refusing to configure, maybe a little bitrot?

Hmmm, that's true, gas and ld shouldn't configure, but perhaps the
BFD and the binutils should.

They were all disabled with this ChangeLog entry:

2002-09-27  Geoffrey Keating  <geoffk@apple.com>

	* configure.in (powerpc-*-darwin*): Don't configure BFD, TK, or the
	things that depend on them.

and this e-mail message:
    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-09/msg00577.html

So, it's not necessarily bit-rot, per se, but it might be fairly
simple for somebody to test BFD and binutils for Mach-O and re-enable
them.

Ian
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