gcc_select confusion

[Rainer Müller]

Neil wrote:
> On my system, only gcc-4.0 shows up in gcc_select (though in Xcode I
> have a selection of 5 different ones); how would I get others to show up
> in gcc_select?

What other versions do you see in Xcode?
I assume gcc 4.2 and llvm-gcc 4.2 at least, what else?

I submitted a ticket some time ago to add gcc42 and llvm-gcc42.
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17458

> I suppose in that case, we could use "-system" (or "-builtin" or
> "-distrib" or something else) as a prefix/suffix.
> 
> But I feel like it's counter-intuitive to have "python25-apple" be the
> built-in/system python, and "gcc40-apple" be something installed by
> MacPorts (which confused me for quite some time).  And it seems
> inconsistent to label the MP's gcc's "mp-gcc40", but MP's Pythons a
> prefix-less "python25".

The problem is we have a different policy for python than for gcc. We
prefer python from MacPorts, but gcc from Xcode.

Rainer