apr binary package misconfigured?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 15, 2012, at 07:16, Titus von Boxberg wrote:

> Am 15.10.2012 13:47, schrieb Ryan Schmidt:
>> 
>> I agree generally with what jmr wrote earlier: any port not respecting the value of configure.compiler should be made to do so. That will solve the problem.
> 
> Would that solve the apr issue?
> 
> I thought that the problem was caused by the buildbot
> having installed an older Xcode than my computer.
> 
> When I run port -v configure apr on my machine it says
> "checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/clang -E"
> 
> So apr does seem to respect the value of configure.compiler?

apr does respect configure.compiler, but it bakes the discovered value into its apr-config script, which other programs, like serf1, then later use to determine the compiler. So it is serf1 and maybe other ports that use apr that need to be fixed to respect configure.compiler.