darwin may lose primary target status on FSF gcc

[Jack Howarth]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 03:03:58AM +0200, Olivier Le Floch wrote:
>> 	Is there a reason there's ongoing discussion of
>> gcc 4.x on a macports related list instead of on a gcc
>> list?
>
> Seing as there are numerous math-related ports that depend on gcc- 
> related ports, I'd think raising this issue on this mailing list is  
> *particularly* adequate — raising it in 3 successive separate mails  
> might not be optimal, though ;)
>
> FWIW, as the octave maintainer, it would seem to me that understanding  
> the options that we'll have in the future for fortran code compilation  
> is quite important, and the discussion between Toby and Jack seems  
> interesting to me.
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I was most interested in getting across the change of libgcc
being subsumed into libSystem on darwin10, I haven't seen that
mentioned anywhere before. Knowing this now, I am actually quite
surprised that gcc 4.4.1 works as well as it does under darwin10.
           Jack