MacPorts on Lion (common issues, fixes, and workarounds)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Remind me, what is the purpose for the "if {![file executable ${configure.cc}]}" block? On what systems would /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 not exist? I'm only coming up with Tiger, but nobody would request llvm-gcc-4.2 or clang on Tiger either.
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> Is gcc 4.2 now an optional install?

I will continue to maintain the option for anyone to install Apple's gcc-4.2 via the apple-gcc-4.2 port for as long as it is required.  Thankfully there don't seem to be too many ports that require it.