mpi

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 30, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt writes:
> 
>>> The question, to me, is: why is it still not
>>> possible to distinguish foo+gcc and foo+clang in MacPorts?
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean.
> 
> Why can't all a port's variants be installed at the same time?
> 
> $ port install boost
> $ port install boost +gcc48
> 
> Every port could have its own custom prefix and only the active one
> would be a symlink in /opt/local.

That's not what variants are for. That's what subports are for.