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Re: [RFC 0/6] A different approach to startup-with-shell on macOS
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:43:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] A different approach to startup-with-shell on macOS
- References: <20180926111130.18956-1-tom@tromey.com>
On 09/26/2018 12:11 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> One question I have is whether it's possible to build gdb on an older
> version of macOS and then run it on a newer version. If this can be
> done, then the #if-based approach taken in the final patch will not
> work.
I'd suspect so. What, e.g., does Homebrew do? Do they have packages
built once for every Darwin version, or a single binary for several
Darwin versions? I'd think the latter, but I don't really know.
And if indeed the latter, do they always build on the newest
Darwin, or perhaps the oldest?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves