[MacPorts] #25562: miriad 4.1.3.20100512 - update to version 4.1.3.20100706

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#25562: miriad 4.1.3.20100512 - update to version 4.1.3.20100706
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 Reporter:  peter@…              |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  update               |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.9.1                                
 Keywords:  haspatch maintainer  |        Port:  miriad                               
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Comment(by peter@…):

 Replying to [comment:5 ryandesign@…]:
 > You're right, I find this controversial, and am not committing it yet.
 You say this is meant to let the user use any compiler, yet you restrict
 it to run ${prefix}/bin/gcc. This implies you're not letting the user run
 any compiler installed anywhere after all; you're only letting them run a
 compiler that can be selected with the MacPorts gcc_select tool. In that
 case, why not just offer variants for each compiler MacPorts gcc_select
 can select?

 Because my intention was to have some special instructions for these power
 users that had them write their own gcc_select data files in
 ${prefix}/etc/select/gcc that pointed to their special compilers.

 This was the only solution I could come up with given the constraints that
 1) users can only input information to the Portfile in binary form by
 selection/deselection of variants 2) I don't know where the users will
 install their fancy compilers or what names they'll have. The gcc_select
 mechanism allows the port to be fed the locations of the fancy compilers
 implicitly, by the symlinks it creates. We can't just say CC=cc and let
 $PATH do the work, I think, because it doesn't seem like you can override
 the $PATH used to build ports, which is an entirely reasonable thing if
 that is indeed the case.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25562#comment:7>
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