gcc compilers to be supported by Macports, especially on older MacOS systems

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Nov 21, 2024, at 6:44 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 21/11/2024 2:44 pm, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> On Nov 21, 2024, at 1:29 AM, Chris Jones via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
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>>>> OOTH: If gcc10 is available and installed, why would you want to call in a full build of gcc13 unnecessarily to build the port?
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>>> If you are suggesting the builds should check to see what the user has installed and pick a compiler based on that, then no, absolutely not.
>> Nobody ever suggested that.
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> Then what precisely are you posing to do ?
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Exactly what was stated before:

current status then is we have a proposal to restrict available compilers on systems < 10.6 to 

gcc48, gcc5, gcc6, gcc7, gcc10, and gcc14