On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:57, Ned Deily wrote:
>> Out of curiosity: is gcc-4.2 the last compiler for which Apple made it >> possible to build it on systems where you cannot obtain the binaries >> directly >> from Apple? If so, are there any plans to provide ports of those compilers >> (supposing there's any interest to that ... introducing features like ARC >> which aren't supported by the runtime isn't particularly useful ...) > > I'm not sure I understand what you are asking here. I believe Apple > decided to stop using gcc for its build systems for a couple of reasons: I didn't ask about the last gcc compiler! :) I saw that Apple's clang is at 4.7 or thereabouts. I guess (naively?) it'd be nice to have access to the latest Apple compiler(s) even if Apple don't support (= provide) it for older OSes. IIRC I managed with a gcc 4 (probably 4.0) while still hanging on to 10.4, but gave up on my more recent attempts (too many dependencies to build). R _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
