On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:14:16PM -0600, Jim Ursetto wrote: > On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Felix Winkelmann <felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com> > wrote: > > >> > >> I don't see why not. chicken should be using /usr/bin as its binary > >> directory, and so when xcode-select changes the install location, it will > >> still work. (I think the shims just look up the actual XCode location > >> and then exec() it -- they're not symlinks nor are they physically updated > >> in place, AFAIK.) Am I missing something? > > > > If I compile the base chicken system using toolchain/xcode-version A > > with the c-compiler in some default location, xcode-select to another > > toolchain/xcode-version and then install an egg using the base chicken > > system, that calls whatever c-compiler is currently in /usr/bin, then > > we surely might get into trouble regarding binary-compatibility or > > c-compiler version differences, ABIs, or whatnot, right? > > I guess so, but I don't see how it's any different than upgrading XCode in > place, or even upgrading the gcc binary on any old system. I don't think you > should habitually be running xcode-select to switch toolchains, anyway. I > still don't see the problem with just using /usr/bin/gcc like every other > UNIX program on the Mac, unless you've actually had a problem with this, > which is possible as you've done a lot of work on iOS lately. >
I agree with Jim here. I don't use Xcode, but need gcc/clang for brew, chicken, &c. I benefit from this project: http://kennethreitz.org/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew/, which provides gcc and associated darwin libraries on the command-line. My gcc is in /usr/bin, which got that way installing brew, for which I assume I did something similar to/identical to the instructions upthread. So I have a proper compiler in /usr/bin, and I'd like chicken to continue to use it. -a -- my personal website: http://c0redump.org/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers