docs/README.macos.txt
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     1.4 -22 May 2010 - Titus
     1.5 -
     1.6 -Prerequisites and instructions for using crosstool-NG for building a cross
     1.7 -toolchain on MacOS as host.
     1.8 -
     1.9 -0) Mac OS Snow Leopard, with Developer Tools 3.2 installed, or
    1.10 -   Mac OS Leopard, with Developer Tools & newer gcc (>= 4.3) installed
    1.11 -   via macports
    1.12 -
    1.13 -1) You have to use a case sensitive file system for ct-ng's build and target
    1.14 -   directories. Use a disk or disk image with a case sensitive fs that you
    1.15 -   mount somewhere.
    1.16 -
    1.17 -2) Install macports (or similar easy means of installing 3rd party software),
    1.18 -   make sure that macport's bin dir is in your PATH.
    1.19 -   Furtheron assuming it is /opt/local/bin.
    1.20 -
    1.21 -3) Install (at least) the following macports
    1.22 -   ncurses
    1.23 -   lzmautils
    1.24 -   libtool
    1.25 -   binutils
    1.26 -   gsed
    1.27 -   gawk
    1.28 -   gcc43 (only necessary for Leopard OSX 10.5)
    1.29 -
    1.30 -   On Leopard, make sure that the macport's gcc is called with the default
    1.31 -   commands (gcc, g++,...), e.g. via macport gcc_select
    1.32 -
    1.33 -4) run ct-ng's configure with the following tool configuration
    1.34 -   (assuming you have installed the tools via macports in /opt/local):
    1.35 -   ./configure --with-sed=/opt/local/bin/gsed           \
    1.36 -               --with-libtool=/opt/local/bin/glibtool   \
    1.37 -               --with-objcopy=/opt/local/bin/gobjcopy   \
    1.38 -               --with-objdump=/opt/local/bin/gobjdump   \
    1.39 -               --with-readelf=/opt/local/bin/greadelf   \
    1.40 -               [...other configure parameters as you like...]
    1.41 -
    1.42 -5) proceed as described in standard documentation
    1.43 -
    1.44 ------
    1.45 -
    1.46 -HINTS:
    1.47 -- Apparently, GNU make's builtin variable .LIBPATTERNS is misconfigured
    1.48 -  under MacOS: It does not include lib%.dylib.
    1.49 -  This affects build of (at least) gdb-7.1
    1.50 -  Put 'lib%.a lib%.so lib%.dylib' as .LIBPATTERNS into your environment
    1.51 -  before executing ct-ng build.
    1.52 -  See http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Libraries_002fSearch.html
    1.53 -  as an explanation.