On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:16, Blair Zajac wrote:

> On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> 
>> All of the ports that are in my install-set (including many multimedia 
>> ports, x11, firefox, gnome, with most bloat variants set) have been working 
>> with trunk/base using llvm-gcc-4.2 on SL and Lion for a while now 
>> (trunk/base now chooses the compiler based on devtools version rather than 
>> os version).  I'm still holding on to a couple NDA-squimish patches in leaf 
>> projects that I'll push after the actual release, but it mostly works out of 
>> the box.
>> 
>> If you are uncertain if filing your bug would violate your NDA, please feel 
>> free to email me directly.
> 
> Out of curiosity, Apple hasn't bumped to a newer gcc version?  Does anybody 
> know why?  Did they stick with 4.2 for compatibility for libstdc++?

gcc-4.2 was Leopard's preferred compiler.  It was replaced with llvm-gcc as the 
preferred compiler in Snow Leopard.  If you want to know about Lion, you can 
watch the WWDC talks if you have an ADC account.

--Jeremy

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