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

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Sep 26, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

The usual approach is to blacklist compilers that *don't* work.

vq