On 2012-10-7 13:56 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> We've had the problem before of ports deleting /dev/null, with qt4-mac:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/22701
> 
> And git-core:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33127
> 
> The problem occurs when a port compiles a test with "-o /dev/null", because 
> although that will discard the output file, which is what's wanted, it will 
> also *delete* the output file (i.e. delete /dev/null) if the test fails. 
> Since we only saw this problem on Snow Leopard I guess only gcc does that, 
> and clang doesn't.

How does gcc, running as the macports user, have permission to modify
/dev anyway?

- Josh
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