Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia writes: > On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Sean Farley <s...@macports.org> wrote: > >> >> Rainer Müller writes: >> >>> On 2013-02-15 09:10, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: >>>> I'd like to update base trunk such that future versions of clang, >>>> dragonegg, and gcc "just work", so we don't need to wait for newer >>>> versions of base to depend on newer compilers. >>>> >>>> I've taken a first pass at portconfigure.tcl and here is a patch. >>>> Comments? Concerns? >>> >>> Fine with me. >>> >>> This change makes sense as the features supported by the gcc and clang >>> compilers shipped in ports are almost homogenous at the moment; in the >>> past there were differences as not all gcc4* shipped gfortran or gcj. >>> However, I don't expect the situation to change in the near future. >> >> Clang doesn't provide fortran but all gcc ports do. How is that almost >> homogenous? > > Did you actually look at the patch? It doesn't treat clang the same as it > does gcc. It treats all gcc versions the same as all other gcc versions; it > treats all clang versions the same as all other clang versions; and it treats > all dragonegg versions the same as it treats all other dragonegg versions...
To be honest, Jeremy, the patch is a bad hack, at best. It relies on the compiler name and does horrible regex matching. What if there's a new compiler that comes out? For example, let's say Intel releases a free version for the mac or maybe the Open64 compiler gets a complete port to the mac? Those would still require an update to base. What about making this a port group? Or maybe making this a better system of object-oriented-ness (as much as would be allowed in Tcl)? >> That's a huge difference when building mpi-dependent ports. > > Which is not really affected by this… Sure, your patch doesn't make it worse but it also does nothing to alleviate the burden of having a port with a fortran + mpi requirement. This seems like a good opportunity to address these issues. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
