[MacPorts] #27002: py26-numpy @1.5.0, Revision 1 - build failure

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#27002: py26-numpy @1.5.0, Revision 1 - build failure
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 Reporter:  dannowolk@…          |       Owner:  mcalhoun@…           
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:                       
Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.9.1                
 Keywords:  tiger                |        Port:  py26-numpy           
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Comment(by stephen@…):

 This bug is still present in py26-numpy @1.5.1_0 (and py25-numpy
 @1.5.1_0).

 I suspect that the problem is that something is forcing the use of
 /usr/bin/gcc-4.0
 for the build, regardless of the setting of configure.cc (and
 configure.compiler,
 for that matter).  I thought it was Python itself -- I know that Python
 does care
 about the core compiler when building C extensions -- but maybe it isn't.
 Anyway,
 the compiler controller is visible in the trace above.

 I tried rebuilding the python26 port with "configure.compiler macports-
 gcc-4.4"
 hacked into the Portfile.  It seemed to succeed (at least the compiler
 used to
 compile much of Python and its extensions was gcc-mp-4.4)  However, in
 building
 py26-numpy, once again /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 was forced as the compiler, and
 later on
 the build totally blew up with "cannot link a simple C program" (because
 the
 Macports gcc doesn't recognize the -arch command-line option, it seems).

 The only other thing I can think of to try is to install the apple-gcc-4.2
 port,
 and rebuild python26 and all my py26-* ports with that compiler.  But on a
 slow
 iBook G4 installing a new gcc will take forever, and rebuilding everything
 that
 depends on python26 as well as python itself will take almost that long;
 I'm
 not eager to do this.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27002#comment:11>
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