Boost.Python and g++

[Eric Gallager]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:18 PM, "René J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Jun 04, 2014, at 20:21, Eric Gallager wrote:
>
> > Wow, that looks a lot simpler than I thought that it would be... I was
> expecting something like this would have to be fixed upstream by gcc,
> because that is how they handle the GNU vs. NeXT Objective C runtime
> issues, but if all it takes in this case is this script, it seems like just
> using this script would be easier... the main thing I worry about would be
> how the version numbers are hardcoded, but that seems like it should be
> easy enough to fix.
>
> Does gcc still support spec files (cf. gcc -dumpspecs)?


Yes.


> If so, one could probably patch in the information via that mechanism, and
> not add a series of library specifications regardless of whether you're
> linking or not ...
>
> In any case I'd invoke the system clang compiler.
>
> ...this is just to get the version number, right? If we include this
script in a port (such as the one ryandesign is working on in
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44413 for example), we could avoid having
to actually invoke the compiler by just using the `configure.compiler`
setting, and then `reinplace`-ing that into the script.
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