XCode 4.4 harmful

[Joshua Root]

Some build systems do ignore the compiler that you ask for in the
configure environment. You might have to patch it if that's what's
happening.

On 2012-9-18 22:54 , James George wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> We did that I think.  Though, from memory, it was still showing clang
> use in the logs.  I shall double check.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> On 18/09/12 8:52 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2012-9-18 22:06 , James George wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I tried to do this, though quite likely got it wrong.  I set the configure.cc and configure.cxx in the port file to use /usr/bin llvm-gcc-4.2 and llvm-gxx-4.2 but this resulted in the build failing.  I suspect this may be due to changes in (deprecated) APIs or "improved" compiler checks that some old myth code uses but more investigation is required.
>>>
>>> Is there is a better way to config the port to use the llvm-g?? variants and not choose clang?
>> See <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#compiler>. In the
>> case that you just want to not use clang (as opposed to selecting a
>> specific compiler), you'd add 'compiler.blacklist clang' to the portfile.
>>
>> - Josh
>