How do I find information about variants?

[Markus Weimer]

Hi,

thanks for that explanation. So I can just go without any variant and
get a gcc that is capable of linking to stuff that came with the OS? I
want to use openmp for performance reasons and thus, I am also very
interested in using the Accelrate Framework.

And the original question remains: How would I have found out about
this without bothering the mailing list?

Thanks,

Markus


On 4/24/07, Elias Pipping <pipping at macports.org> wrote:
> 'universal' is a variant every port has
> (except for a single port currently). if
> it works, it builds a universal binary,
> meaning a binary for intel macs and one
> for ppc macs glued together.
>
> darwin_8 is nothing you need to woryy about.
> it's automatically chosen if you're running
> tiger and ignored if you're not.
>
> odcctools builds gcc42 using ar, as, ld, and
> libtool provided by the odcctools port.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Elias Pipping
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Markus Weimer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am thinking about installing gcc42 using MacPorts. The Port has
> > three variants: universal, darwin_8 and odcctools. However, I cannot
> > find documentation on these variants.
> >
> > I would be especially interested in whether or not any of the variants
> > makes the compiler usable as a drop-in replacement for apple's gcc, as
> > in "is able to link to system framework".
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Markus
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