[Nix-dev] Re: Updating stdenv on Darwin

[shea at shealevy.com]

> Hello!
>
> ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>>
>>> Thus I’d like to commit this patch and take this opportunity to
>>> update
>>> Apple’s GCC fork as well.
>>
>> I did that in the ‘darwin-updates’ branch and apparently there’s
>> no new
>> breakage on the package sample I looked at:
>>
>>   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/darwin-updates/with-status
>>
>> If there are no objections I’ll merge it to ‘trunk’ next week.
>
> That week turned out to last more than a month, but I’ve now merged it.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
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Hi Ludo,

I'm working on modifying the darwin stdenv in such a way that it
ultimately won't depend on any xcode tools. Can I use the darwin-updates
branch for this?

Also, do you know the rationale for using the Apple gcc fork instead of
vanilla GNU gcc on darwin?

Thanks,
Shea