Making QtCurve build on Snow Leopard

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Nov 30 11:38:51 PST 2014


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.

>> On Saturday November 29 2014 18:45:26 Marko Käning wrote:
>>> just tried with the already installed gcc 4.7 using
>>>  configure.compiler  macports-gcc-4.7
>>> and it worked! :)
>>
>>> Some logic on how to use an existing or to be installed macports-gcc-4.* compiler
>>> should be inserted into the portfile for SL, I suppose...
> 
> Could someone point me to a port which achieves something similar, so that
> I could re-use the relevant code?

'port echo variant:gcc49' perhaps?

- Josh


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