[86719] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portconfigure.tcl

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Nov 2 15:08:04 PDT 2011


On 2011-11-3 08:57 , Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
> On Nov 1, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> When would we ever want a port to use the compiler the user has selected? We've always made a big deal about how "port select" is for a user's convenience only and would never be intentionally used by any port.
> 
> Well why was 'macports-gcc' there to begin with then?  I was just mirroring what was done for gcc.

The author of the miriad port apparently had a reason.

- Josh


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