[bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.

[Maxime Devos]

Philip McGrath schreef op wo 15-06-2022 om 13:15 [-0400]:
> +      (synopsis "Darwin's @code{cctools} and @code{ld64}")
> +      ;; Confusingly enough, the program is called ld64, but the command is
> +      ;; just ld (with no symlink), so @command{ld64} would be wrong.
> +      (description
> +       "Darwin's @code{cctools} are a set of tools somewhat similar in 
> purpose
> +to GNU Binutils, but for Mach-O files targeting Darwin.  The suite includes
> +@command{install_name_tool}, @command{libtool}, and other specialized tools 
> in
> +addition to standard utilities like @command{ld} and @command{as}.  This
> +package provides portable versions of the tools.")
> +      (license license:apsl2))))

How can this work? We don't have any (cross-compiled) Darwin libc
libraries to let it link against. Is this a draft patch?

Greetings,
Maxime.

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