On Aug 9, 2013, at 13:17, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2013, at 4:12 PM, 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. > > not impossible, just impractical (I think we've had other ports that need > themselves to bootstrap). Yes, see apple-gcc42 on Tiger as an example (the +bootstrap variant). apple-gcc42 is needed to build dependencies of apple-gcc42 on Tiger. We really shouldn't be doing that unless there is no other way.
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