[70476] trunk/dports/lang/llvm-gcc42

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 10, 2010, at 16:05, mfeiri at macports.org wrote:

> Revision: 70476
>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/70476
> Author:   mfeiri at macports.org
> Date:     2010-08-10 14:05:21 -0700 (Tue, 10 Aug 2010)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> update to 2.7, add llvm-gfortran and LTO, introduce libgcc_s variant and support for gcc_select, fix #20889 #20890 #21059 and #24046

> Modified: trunk/dports/lang/llvm-gcc42/Portfile

> +variant libgcc_s \
> +        description "Install and use the libgcc_s libraries provided by gcc instead of those provided by the system. \
> +        This introduces a linker dependency in all binaries built for 10.4 and 10.5 targets using this compiler." {
> +        configure.args-delete --with-slibdir=/usr/lib
> }

I'm curious why any user would want this option. It just seems like offering the user a way to shoot themselves in the foot, and increasing our support burden when they then write to us asking why they don't have a foot anymore.