Does MacPort come with an alternative GCC for compiling Ruby 1.8.7 with RVM

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 24, 2012, at 00:27, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

> Also looks like the non-Apple versions of GCC are not compilable on Lion anymore:
> 
> sudo port install gcc42
> Password:
> --->  Fetching archive for gcc42
> --->  Attempting to fetch gcc42-4.2.4_2.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/gcc42
> --->  Fetching gcc42
> Error: gcc42 does not build on Snow Leopard or later.
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: unsupported platform
> Log for gcc42 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_gcc42/gcc42/main.log
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Certainly not something as ancient as gcc42. Newer ones should work though.