[36832] trunk/dports/archivers/gnutar/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 18, 2008, at 04:34, Markus Weissmann wrote:

> On 17 May 2008, at 06:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On May 16, 2008, at 2:55 AM, mww at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> version 1.20 with workaround for broken gcc-4.0 on 10.5: beta gcc  
>>> 4.2 needs to be installed :/
>>
>>> +platform darwin 9 {
>>> +	# gcc 4.0 fails to compile gnutar on 10.5 (probably will get  
>>> fixed with XCode 3.1)
>>> +	configure.compiler	gcc-4.2
>>> +}
>>
>> Don't you also need to add "depends_lib port:gcc42" in the  
>> "platform darwin 9" section then, since MacPorts doesn't  
>> automatically add the compiler dependency?
>
> No, this is not the vanilla-gcc installed via MacPorts but the beta  
> release of gcc 4.2 from Apple -- which allows universal builds etc.;

Gotcha! I missed that.

> I don't know if we should introduct a virtual package for this or  
> if there should be a "depends_build bin:gcc-4.2:APPLE_STUFF" in  
> there. Any thoughts?

Oh, I think that's probably not necessary. I just wasn't paying  
enough attention.