Re: Swarm on MacOS

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "DS" == SCHREIBER,DARREN MATTHEW <address@hidden> writes:

DS> 4.  Mac OS X -- A while ago Marcus said that there were some
DS> problems with GCC that were precluding Swarm from running.  And, I
DS> tried to find info GCC's status online without success.  So, I am
DS> wondering what the current status of it is and if there was any
DS> estimate as to how long I would have to wait to use Swarm on Mac OS X.

There's slow but ongoing work on the GCC CVS trunk by a few people at
Apple.  I have yet to get a GCC bootstrap to even finish on Darwin.
By the `trunk', I mean what will be GCC 3.1 some day.  There be be at
least one minor release of GCC 3.0 slated for October before the 3.1
release process even gets started -- at best, 3.1 might show up in the
late part of the 1st quarter of 2002.  Anyway, I'm sure an adequate
compiler won't be in the upcoming MacOS X release.  I'd suggest
ordering new SuSE Linux PPC CDROMS or get a cheap Windows 2000 machine for
a couple/three hundred bucks.

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