10.9 and compiler

[Blair Zajac]

On Nov 17, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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>>>> Can we not use blacklists on 10.9?  Do we need to always use clang?  Or is that only for C++ code that we have to use clang?
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>>> On 10.9, clang is the only system compiler. So for OSX 10.9, you need to use clang, for C C++, Obj-C etc.
>> 
>> Thanks.  Technically, one could use gcc for C code, since it doesn’t link against any C++ runtime???
> 
> the system ‘gcc’ on OSX 10.9 is actually clang…
> 
> MacBookPro ~ > /usr/bin/gcc -v
> Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
> Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
> Thread model: posix
> 
> clang is the *only* system compiler. You could install one of macports gcc ports, and use that, but really its a much better option to get upstream to probably support clang…

I got it.  I assumed the other compilers were still there.  Thanks for clarifying.

Blair