Update ports to use gcc42?

[Elias Pipping]

I believe the ports below depend on gcc40 rather than /usr/bin/gcc  
because they require a fortran compiler.

Regards,

Elias

On May 20, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

> I think that every port that depends on any version of gcc 4 in  
> 10.4 should be tested against the version of gcc 4 that is bundled  
> with XCode. If that works, then make building against our gcc 4 a  
> 10.3-only requirement.
>
> On 20 May 2007, at 03:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Now that gcc42 is a final release, what should be done with all  
>> the ports that depend on gcc41? Should they be updated to require  
>> gcc42 instead? It's not very many ports:
>>
>> devel/lua-numlua
>> gnustep/gnustep-base
>> gnustep/gnustep-make
>> lang/ftidy
>> python/py-numpy/Portfile
>> textproc/pdftk
>>
>> There are also a few still using gcc40:
>>
>> lang/ftidy
>> math/GiNaC
>> math/R
>> math/fftw-3-single
>> math/fftw-3
>> math/nestedsums
>> math/octave-forge
>> math/octave
>> science/libnc-dap
>> science/xloops
>> www/varnish
>> x11/fluxbox
>>
>> Assuming gcc42 is capable of building each of the above ports, and  
>> that the port authors update these ports to use gcc42, is there a  
>> need to keep these old versions of gcc around? It's annoying  
>> enough for the user to have to spend a couple hours on an Intel  
>> Mac, or many many hours on a slower PowerPC, to compile a single  
>> version of gcc. It would be even more annoying if the user wanted  
>> to use various different ports, each of which required a different  
>> version of gcc.
>>
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