On 16 January 2015 at 07:52, Daurnimator <q...@daurnimator.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not a OSX user, however, people using macs often try and use the > libraries I write. > So I'm not able to say the following with confidence: > > Currently luarocks uses a hack of defining CC="export > MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.<version>; gcc" > Where <version> maxes out at 5. > https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/blob/master/src/luarocks/cfg.lua#L451 > > There are several problems with this: > > 1. Defining CC as multiple commands breaks shell scripts; it should be > only set to a single command to run. > A workaround for this issue alone is to instead use: "env > MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.<version> gcc" > > 2. MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is needlessly limited to 10.5; Some > features important features are only available in later targets. > e.g. __thread support is only available for 10.7 and above. > > 3. MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET isn't required in 10.5+ > (according to Luiz, June 2012) > > > I propose that we drop this CC/LD hack completely, > and if someone wants to compile for an old osx version (pre 2007), > they can take the 5 seconds to configure their variables manually. > > Is someone perhaps more versed in OSX compilation able to say if this > is a good/bad idea? > > Daurn.
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