Re: crosstool on Mac OS X

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Daniel Morais wrote:
> When I first tried to use crosstool, I failed...
> A lot of "cryptic messages" (I'm not a GNU expert :), so I give up  and 
> tried other solutions (without success).
> Then, I tried again, and read carefully the documentation: the main  
> problems I had was due to the fact I didn't installed GNU version of  
> sed...
> Mac OS X already have sed installed, but it is not the GNU one and it  
> seems they are not compatible (I suggest that, for people like  me, 
> you should mention on your doc that Mac OS X shiped version of  sed will 
> not work fine)
>
> The other problem I had was due to the fact the gcc version I'm using  
> on Mac OS X is 4.0, which seems to cause some troubles (don't  remember 
> the error message, sorry).
> Solution is simple: Mac OS X provide two versions of gcc, 4.0 and  3.3, 
> and developer can choose which version to use by running the  command 
> gcc_select (need root privileges).
>
> So, here, developer should type on the terminal: sudo gcc_select 3.3
>
> This will make gcc version 3.3 be the default one, and everything  will 
> then work fine with crosstool.

Thanks for the tips, I'll add them!
- Dan

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