Indeed. They aren't quite the same thing though in the end, as on OSX 10.8 and 
newer it supports c++11, whereas on 10.7 it doesn't, because of the underlying 
system support. So the same clang34 compiler now builds root6 fine on OSX10.9, 
but fails on 10.7.

My recollection of all the previous times c++11 has been discussed, can be 
summarised as there is no obvious way to support it cleanly on older OSX 
releases. So if an upstream package, as ROOT6 has, is actively only targetting 
c++11 supporting compilers, then effectively these ports cannot be used on 
older OSX releases now. Is that correct, or am I being overly pessimistic here ?

Using latest gcc (currently gcc48) might be a way to support C++11 on OS X < 
10.9, but otherwise, with clang, C++11 requires 10.9+.

Yes, I thought of that. But as I understanding it mixing libc++ and libstdc++ runtimes is an absolute no no when c++11 is involved, so the user would have to update their MacPorts settings to build *everything* with gcc(48) ?

Chris
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