#12369: Add a gcc package
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged: | Dependencies: #11073, #12366, #12367, #12368,
#10492, #12405
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Comment(by jdemeyer):
First of all: this spkg is all pretty-much proof-of-concept. I haven't
even managed to install Sage from source with this spkg.
Replying to [comment:7 kcrisman]:
> {{{
> # Install gcc if the system-provided one is older than gcc-4.4.
> }}}
> But that is all Macs. This seems overkill to me; why not only do this
on Lion?
Maybe you are right, but my idea was to install this gcc spkg if the gcc
we ship is more recent than the one the user has. I think many people
would benefit from using a more recent compiler.
> Or would this eliminate having Xcode as a prerequisite to building Sage
on OS X in general (even for those for which XCode is free, though
sometimes annoying to get)? That might be a nice move. I assume this is
a prebuilt gcc like our current Fortran package?
No, this is a gcc from source. I certainly don't want to include gcc
binaries for every platform, that would increase the size way too much.
> Could the message "installing GCC because..." occur several times here?
Sure.
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