What is the preferred or recommended gcc version?

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-5-15 10:09, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2009-5-15 10:00, Darren Weber wrote:
>> This one is not in the FAQ, yet, so here we go.
>>
>> Is there a general consensus, for the majority of ports without any
>> specific build dependency, on which version of gcc is preferred or
>> recommended for MacPorts?
> 
> The one that is in the configure.cc variable.

Oh and more generally there is configure.compiler which controls the
value of configure.cc, configure.cpp, configure.cxx, configure.fc and so
on. See the entries in
<http://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases.configure>.

- Josh