force a compiler install, or default the port to reduced features?

[Ken Cunningham]

One of the ports I've been working on (hatari, an Atari ST emulator) was accepted for inclusion. Thank you! Hope everyone enjoys using it.

And of course I find out that the preferred variant (a nice MacOSX GUI) doesn't build with the default installation on about the only system I didn't test it on - a vanilla 10.6 system (my 10.6 systems are LibCxxOnOlderSystems now, with clang-3.7). 

So my choice is to let it use the existing default compiler and build a somewhat impaired but usable command-line only version, or force a compiler install (clang-3.4 works, maybe 3.3, clang 3.7 would be best), and get the really much better racing-stripes GUI version. The compiler would be installed precompiled on a vanilla 10.6 system. (LibCxx... systems already have clang-3.7, and so don't have this problem).

I'm tempted to force the compiler install, and if so it might as well be to clang-3.7.

Is this the "MacPorts" way?

Thanks,

ken