Enquiry about a port of GCC 4.6.0

[doug livesey]

In that case I'll try the beta port tonight & report back -- thanks very
much for the info & links, that gives me a much better idea of how to
investigate this sort of thing in future.
Give a man a fish & all that. :)
Cheers!

On 13 May 2011 11:31, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

>
> On May 13, 2011, at 05:03, doug livesey wrote:
>
> > Hi -- I've been trying to compile the latest GCC (4.6.0) on my Snow
> Leopard machine, without much success.
> > So I was wondering if there was a working port of this expected any time
> soon?
> > If not, could whoever got the beta to work (assuming it hasn't the same
> problems my own attempts to install 4.6 suffered) possibly let me know how
> they got it to compile correctly?
> > Does the beta work correctly? (I'll check later, but thought I'd ask in
> case there are any known issues.)
> > There seem to be numerous subtleties in the Mac OS that my attempts have
> broken against -- the latest being how GCC wants to handle empty strings vs.
> how OSX wants to: The former wants to use a static empty string to optimise
> memory usage, but OSX doesn't. This leads to code using string buffers being
> borked.
> > In the meantime, I'm developing my C++11 code in a VM running Ubuntu, but
> would really like to be developing on my Mac as a first-class citizen.
>
> The gcc46 port, as all other ports, ought to work, but sometimes ports are
> broken. If this port is broken, as with any other broken port, please file a
> ticket in the issue tracker with more details (e.g. the complete main.log
> file and information about your computer, OS and Xcode), if one does not
> already exist.
>
>
> I don't know why Marcus hasn't updated gcc46 to version 4.6.0 proper as was
> already requested:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29184
>
> However, the snapshot version the port is at -- 4.6-20110325 -- was
> released the same day as 4.6.0, so it should be nearly equivalent, or even
> identical, to 4.6.0.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/
>
>
>
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