darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page

Wed Feb 12 14:46:00 GMT 2003

Andreas Tobler writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > You might be pleased to learn that Mac OS X, Version 10.2, just dropped
 > > into my mailbox.
 > 
 > Got mine as well yesterday. Copy number xyz. (10.2.3) Did you get the same?
It just says "v 10.2" on the disks. Have the silly b^*^%&^s sent me a
version that's out of date already?
 > > I presume that there will be a bunch of other software/upgrades/etc
 > > required before I can try building gcc. I'd be grateful if you could
 > > let me know what I'll need.
 > 
 > Ok, the Developer tool should be part of the copy.
 > 
 > And then you need texinfo-4.2 at least.
 > Automake/Autoconf are delivered with, but in version 1.6/2.5x. So you 
 > need a copy of this tools as well (the java tool chain.)
 > 
 > If you want to run tests then you also need dejagnu, expect, tcl and 
 > last but not least a working kernel.
 > I can pass you one in priv.
 > The deja, expect versions are from cvs, tcl is 8.4.1.
 > 
 > Hope I didn't forget too much.
 > 
 > I placed all in /usr/local/ and built it myself.
Cool. Sounds like what I'm used to on GNU/Linux.
Andrew.