Making QtCurve build on Snow Leopard

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2014-12-1 06:05 , "Marko Käning" wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in order to make port QtCurve install on Snow Leopard it is necessary to let
>> the port choose a macports-gcc compiler, preferrably the one perhaps already
>> installed on the system.
>
> Why exactly? If it works on Lion without using macports-gcc, I would
> suspect it isn't necessary on Snow Leopard either.

My blind guess (without testing anything) is that Lion uses clang by
default while Snow Leopard uses gcc 4.2. Clang might be "new enough",
while gcc 4.2 is not.

Mojca