MacPorts and clang

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-3-4 02:40 , Jack Howarth wrote:
>   Are there any plans to attempt to move MacPorts towards
> building with clang once Xcode 4 is released? Considering that
> we have so many packages supporting gcc4x variants to build with
> FSF gcc, it seems strange not to do the same for clang.
>              Jack
> ps I assume that Xcode 4 won't be held up until Lion is released so
> these clang variants could be first done on Snow Leopard. It is unclear
> from http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/whats-new.html
> if the clang c++ support in Xcode 4.0 will use the existing libstdc++
> or the new libc++ instead. It would be nice if it were the latter.

We already have configure.compiler settings for llvm-gcc-4.2 and clang.
Port maintainers can use these as desired. We default to whatever Apple
calls /usr/bin/cc on each OS.

There's a default for darwin 11 in base already on spec (llvm-gcc-4.2).
We can change that if it turns out to be wrong when Lion ships.
Otherwise this should all "just work".

- Josh