[MacPorts] #52091: cctools, ld64: circular dependencies

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#52091: cctools, ld64: circular dependencies
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  Reporter:  ryandesign@…   |      Owner:  jeremyhu@…
      Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal         |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports          |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:                 |   Keywords:  leopard
      Port:  cctools, ld64  |
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Comment (by mojca@…):

 Replying to [comment:2 jeremyhu@…]:
 > Yeah, there's not really a way to do that short of rolling up a
 bootstrap package which lays down a toolchain in /opt/macports-bootstrap-
 toolchain or something similar.  Of course, base would need to be updated
 to know how to use that toolchain (and make it part of the default
 toolchains, perhaps as macports-bootstrap-gcc and macports-bootstrap-
 clang).  I'm not opposed to doing that and have considered doing so myself
 in the past.  If that seems like it would be worthwhile, I'll see what I
 can do to come up with such a package.

 We started discussing using an external compiler for `libc++` builds in
 the past, but Ryan warned against that idea because some compilers might
 leave traces (we could end up with a library linking against `/opt
 /macports-bootstrap-toolchain/lib/libsomething.dylib` or any other weird
 situation).

 The problem we'll have on the `libc++` build slaves will be that
 `clang-3.x` and all of its dependencies will have to be activated and
 deactivated over and over again.

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