On 17 November 2012 13:10, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 17 November 2012 13:02, Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> wrote: >> Am 16.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Peter Maydell: >>> +if test "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin"; then >>> + # On MacOS X the standard supported system compiler is 'cc' (usually >>> clang), >>> + # and 'gcc' is a legacy llvm-gcc which is rather elderly and best >>> avoided. >> >> This comment strikes me as wrong in this generality. It should at least >> be qualified with OSX version numbers. > > How about "and if 'gcc' is not the same as 'cc' then it is a legacy llvm-gcc > which is rather elderly and best avoided" ? I'd rather not get into having > to research which versions of OSX shipped with which compiler as 'cc', > when really the point is that 'cc' will always give you whichever compiler > Apple thought was the best default for that version.
Andreas: ping? are you happy with this suggested rephrasing? Do you think this is 1.3 material? (now the static-stublib stuff is in it's less critical, but it still seems like the right idea...) thanks -- PMM
