Re: compiler.whitelist and compiler installation side-effects

2015-09-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 23, 2015, at 3:49 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday September 23 2015 15:35:38 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> That sounds like a busted build system which should be fixed. > > It's only partly the fault of the build system; the rest is an interplay > between compiler limitations and

Re: compiler.whitelist and compiler installation side-effects

2015-09-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday September 23 2015 15:35:38 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > That sounds like a busted build system which should be fixed. It's only partly the fault of the build system; the rest is an interplay between compiler limitations and code requirements. > Sounds like the Qt build system sucks, an

Re: compiler.whitelist and compiler installation side-effects

2015-09-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 23, 2015, at 3:05 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday September 23 2015 14:07:25 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> True, but what you don't know is what versions there are (or are going to >>> be at some point in the future). >> >> I don't see how that matters here. > > Being able to us

Re: compiler.whitelist and compiler installation side-effects

2015-09-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday September 23 2015 14:07:25 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> True, but what you don't know is what versions there are (or are going to be >> at some point in the future). > >I don't see how that matters here. Being able to use a range expression means you don't have to keep coming back to ada

Re: compiler.whitelist and compiler installation side-effects

2015-09-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 22, 2015, at 7:22 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday September 22 2015 18:39:13 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> That's correct. The compiler_blacklists_versions portgroup only knows how to >> interpret the Apple-sepcific version numbers Apple assigns to its compilers >> in Xcode. I didn'