Re: [fink-core] [Fink-devel] fink, gcc-4.2 and ppl > 0.9

[Daniel J. <dan...@gm...>]

On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:

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> Jack Howarth wrote:
> | Benjamin,
> |      What I meant was in the next month or so. I would be quite
> | interested in a version of fink that supported a fink.conf
> | option to build with gcc-4.2/g++-4.2 as the default compilers.
> | Specifically, I would like to see that option available via
> | the bootstrap of fink so that a user could build everything
> | from scratch using the new toolchain.
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> I'd like it too, but I certainly don't have the time to work on it,
> personally.  I was only making suggestions on a way to implement  
> working
> with GCC 4.2 without forcing all users to upgrade many packages
> unnecessarily (which I and many end-users would consider a bug).
>
> I don't know if anyone else has time to work on it...  Hence my  
> mention
> of "volunteers."  If someone has the itch, they can help you scratch  
> it.
>
> On the bright side, this is all orthogonal to your original issue,  
> which
> is that of requiring xcode 3.1.1 for gcc 4.4.  That is possible right
> now, using BuildDepends.

Fink auto-creates a gcc42 package if Apple's gcc 4.2 is present, so  
depending on that would probably be better than looking for specific  
Xcode versions.

And it looks like ccache-default needs an update to add a gcc-4.2  
symlink. Can't live without ccache. :)

Daniel