Rainer, Thank you for your detailed response. I will revert to gcc42 per your suggestion and I should have just changed the compiler information in the gnutar Portfile (I wasn't previously sure how to do that so thank you for your example)!
Thanks, T.M. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Rainer Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tabitha McNerney wrote: > > This is rather interesting. I separately installed the two gcc 4.2 ports > > mentioned in my email that started this thread (apple-gcc42 and gcc42). > > After each install, I attempted then to build and install (after first > > cleaning) gnutar 1.20. In both cases gnutar 1.20 failed to install. > > > > So I guess this means that the beta of gcc 4.2 is that which is likely > > associated with pre-release of XCode 3.1? Any suggestions? Has anyone > > successfully built gnutar 1.20 on Leopard 10.5.x? > > Yes, it really wants /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 from the Xcode beta, which is bad > in my opinion as it prevents to install this port on normal systems. I > already wrote a mail about this to Markus and macports-dev [1]. > > It works fine for me with gcc42 or gcc43 from MacPorts. You can > overwrite the compiler manually as a workaround: > > $ sudo port install gnutar configure.compiler=macports-gcc-4.2 > > The only thing that won't work are universal builds, as noted by Markus > in the thread from above. > > Rainer > > [1] > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-June/005403.html >
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