On 2014-4-8 22:35 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Apr 8, 2014, at 07:34, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>>>> PS: It's not an issue of me personally upgrading the OS. I'll do that
>>>> sooner or later. But it would be slightly suboptimal if the port only
>>>> worked on 10.9.
>>
>> As a general point, I agree, only OSX10.9 has full c++11 support. However, 
>> upstream claim to be targeting 10.8 and 10.9, so I would hope it would work 
>> on OSX10.8 as well (to be tested sometime, by someone who has access to a 
>> 10.8 machine). Whilst not ideal, I think this is reasonable coverage (given 
>> root5 will remain available for all versions).
> 
> Well, libc++ (with full C++11 support) is included in 10.8, it’s just not the 
> default. As long as root doesn’t use any other libraries, it should build 
> fine with that, if you instruct it to. But then any other software that wants 
> to use root would have to do that as well.

Indeed, if you can get around the issues with using a non-default
runtime on 10.8, then that should transfer pretty easily to 10.7 and
10.6 as well.

- Josh
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