gcc-4.2 vs apple-gcc-4.2

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jan 22, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Jan 17, 2012, at 17:43, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
>> That looks good to me
> 
> We might further simplify the block like so:
> 
> if {${configure.compiler} == "llvm-gcc-4.2"} {
>    configure.compiler gcc-4.2
> } elseif {${configure.compiler} == "clang"} {
>    depends_build-append port:apple-gcc42
>    configure.compiler apple-gcc-4.2
>    # base (as of 2.0.3) doesn't set cxx for apple-gcc-4.2
>    configure.cxx ${prefix}/bin/g++-apple-4.2
> }
> 
> I think I like this version best; it seems simplest. Any objection to using this version in the PortfileRecipes and in all ports currently using the other version?

Might it be advantageous to use a PortGroup for this?