On 2012-10-16 00:27 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I just don't understand for what purpose apr installs a program that offers > information about what compiler was used. It's not apr's business to do that. > Or I would say no other program should care what compiler apr was compiled > with.
It is apr's business to offer information about how to build, including a usable compiler. Remembering the compiler used to build apr itself is a simple but unrobust approach, given that it doesn't work in the general case. Even when building everything locally, a user could still build apr with Xcode 3.2, then install Xcode 4.2. And in more general binary distribution scenarios, it seems like you wouldn't be able to rely on any particular compiler being present. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
