Update ports to use gcc42?

[Yves de Champlain]

gcc42 is best because gcc41 does not work on intel.

Do not touch gnustep ports, the update is coming soon (I was waiting  
for gcc 4.2) but needs to be sync'ed with a MP release.

yves

Le 07-05-20 à 06:04, Randall Wood a écrit :

> In that case, I am for pulling them all to gcc42 if that continues  
> to work.
>
> On 20 May 2007, at 05:59, Elias Pipping wrote:
>
>> 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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> rest is just philosophy."
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