diff --git a/README.platforms b/README.platforms index 061a4e32c4..a377079ff1 100644 --- a/README.platforms +++ b/README.platforms @@ -18,28 +18,9 @@ well as the fact that the bundled versions are up-to-date: autoconf 2.52 and (g)libtool 1.4.2. - Earlier versions of OS X are not so fortunate, and the bundled tools - are not only older versions, but also, for the most part, do not work - well. If you are interested in developing under Darwin, we - recommend that you obtain and install replacement versions of what - are normally installed on Darwin (and OS X, as of v10.1.5). If - you build your own versions of autoconf 2.52 and libtool 1.4.2, be - aware that there are some Darwin specific patches to the official - code that still must be applied for them to fully work. A useful - page to check out is: - - http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php - - Pier Fumagalli also provides pre-built Darwin packages of the - patched autoconf and libtool suites, available at: - - http://www.apache.org/~pier/macosx/ - You will note that GNU libtool should actually be installed as glibtool, to avoid conflict with a Darwin program of the same - name. Pier's packages have this change already. All files are - installed under /usr/local/ so to use these versions, and be sure - that /usr/local/bin is earlier in your PATH. + name. There have been some reports that autoconf 2.52 prevents Apache's build system from correctly handling passing multi-value envvars @@ -56,11 +37,9 @@ This is a known issue and will be fixed in a later version of the autoconf suite. These errors can be safely ignored. - With Darwin 10, the default C compiler (gcc) will try to build - multi-architecture bundles. This causes problems with APR, which - needs to know various data-type sizes which it assumes are universal - for platforms. Until this is fully fixed, we recommend using the - '-arch i386' gcc option when building both Apache and APR. + For later versions of OS X, (10.8 and 10.9), be sure to have Xcode + AND Xcode Command Line Tools installed. httpd will built both with + gcc and clang. ========== FreeBSD: