On Dec 7, 2017, at 00:37, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2017-12-7 17:29 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> (I don't know why MacPorts base considers this a warning, rather than an >> immediate-exit error.) > Because you wouldn't want things like portindex or 'port info' to fail > because of it.
Surely there's a way to arrange it so that port info and portindex succeed but the compile is stopped as early as possible. For example, set the compiler to /usr/bin/false, or a MacPorts-internal binary that prints a helpful error message.
