Features such as splitting debuging symbols and libdeps in makepkg assume we are dealing with ELF binaries. However, we have at least one developer who wishes to still compile pacman on OSX so we can not drop support completely. Instead post a warning at the end of the configure output about makepkg's limitations. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- Dan wants to be able to compile on OSX, so we keep makepkg doing the basics rather then removing darwin support altogether. configure.ac | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 8ec0eab..8ea4d53 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -520,4 +520,9 @@ ${PACKAGE_NAME}: use git version : ${wantgitver} " +if test "x$host_os_darwin" = "xyes"; then + AC_MSG_WARN([pacman does support systems using non-ELF binaries. Some features of makepkg will not work.]) +fi + + # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 noet: -- 1.8.0.2