macports-clang-3.2

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 16, 2012, at 18:37, Chris Jones wrote:

> On 16 Aug 2012, at 11:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 17:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to ask if there are any approximate time plans to make
>>> macports-clang-3.2 compiler part of officially released MacPorts. The
>>> reason why I'm asking is because TextMate2's build procedure requires
>>> it if XCode 4.4 is not installed. I fixed the problem locally, but
>>> others might start requesting it as well (or filing bugs saying that
>>> "textmate2 fails to compile").
>> 
>> It was added to trunk in r92588 but wasn't merged back to the 2.1 branch. I think this would be a good idea to merge back. It's a version of clang that's not yet released, but we already support gcc48 in the 2.1 branch since r91521 even though gcc 4.8 isn't released yet either.
> 
> I would also find this useful, as I would like to use the 3.2 macports clang version as a possible compiler for the ROOT port, to support cling.
> 
> As a side question If 3.2 is not released, how does it then related to the Xcode version of clang with OSX 10.8, which appears to report itself as version 4.0 ? Or is this just Apple doing its own thing again... Or have I mis read the versions...

I'm unclear on why Apple has called their latest clang "4.0". If the clang project decides to match Apple and call the next version 4.0 instead of 3.2 then we'll have to rename the clang-3.2 port and the "configure.compiler macports-clang-3.2" option.