Making QtCurve build on Snow Leopard
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Tue Dec 2 06:41:25 PST 2014
On 2014-12-2 22:26 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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.
Hence my suspicion, since gcc-4.2 can be blacklisted.
- Josh
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