MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Apr 23, 2013, at 5:02 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw that Apple's clang is at 4.7 or thereabouts. I guess (naively?) it'd be nice to have access to the latest Apple compiler(s) even if Apple don't support (= provide) it for older OSes.

What? The Apple LLVM Compiler is at 4.2, which corresponds to Clang 3.2 (in terms of LLVM backend). Clang versioning has nothing to do with GCC versioning.

You can probably build clang-3.2 right now. What would be the benefit of providing a port for Apple LLVM Compiler 4.2?

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