On 2012-10-5 19:46 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > We continue to receive bug reports from users on Snow Leopard with Xcode 4.2 > (and therefore no /usr/bin/gcc-4.2), who receive a package from our packages > server that was built by the Snow Leopard buildbot which has Xcode 3.2.6 (and > therefore builds things using /usr/bin/gcc-4.2), specifically for ports that > bake the compiler name into themselves, such as perl5.12: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36474 > > A suggestion made in that ticket is that we should disable the use of > pre-built packages for such ports as we discover them. That could work, > unfortunately one of the ports so affected is qt4-mac, which takes so long to > compile that it would be awful to disable binary packages just for this > reason. > > > Another idea would be to encode the compiler name and/or the Xcode version > into the package filename. I suggested that six months ago but didn't receive > any response: > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-April/018689.html
All the compilers that come with Xcode are binary compatible. There is no good reason to do this. Anything that tries to use a nonexistent compiler is not respecting configure.cc and friends. Fix that problem. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
