Your use of gcc-4.8 in the working case is a red haring. That is unrelated.
--Jeremy On Aug 9, 2013, at 13:47, Watson Ladd <[email protected]> wrote: > Would mp-gcc-4.7 work as the start rather than 4.8? > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:30 PM, David Barto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can I get Brian and me on the open bug ticket as cc members? >> >> David >> >> On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> We don't really need to continue this thread. I have reproduced the >> issue and think I have a workaround. Feel free to file a ticket and assign >> it to me if you want to continue this thread in a more appropriate venue >> (mailing list chatter gets lost more easily than bug reports). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jeremy >>> >>> On Aug 9, 2013, at 13:12, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 9, 2013, at 15:06, "Brian D. McGrew" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well I had to port install gcc48 to build gcc-4.8.1 from source. Using >>>>> /usrŠgcc didn't get me there. So installing port gcc48, building >>>>> gcc-4.8.1 from source in ~ and installing over the top of port >> installed >>>>> gcc worked (backing up /opt/local of course). Circular for sure, but >>>>> effective. >>>> >>>> And completely impossible to implement in that fashion in MacPorts. A >> port cannot depend on itself. >>>> >>>> If gcc48 does not build correctly except when built with gcc48, then I >> call that a bug in gcc48 that the developers of gcc need to fix, if they >> want anybody to be able to use gcc48. >>>> >>>> /usr/bin/gcc is not a compiler, by the way; it's a symlink to a >> compiler, and which compiler it's a symlink to varies by Xcode version, so >> it's more useful to talk about the actual compiler. These days, we usually >> compile with Xcode's clang. The version of clang varies by Xcode version >> too… >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users >> > > > > -- > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary > Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
