Re: [Fink-users] gcc47 and Xcode 4.5 part 2

[Jack H. <ho...@br...>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:50:21PM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
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> Am 28.10.2012 um 20:05 schrieb Jack Howarth:
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> > In particular there are linker bugs regarding weak undefined symbols which aren't addresses until Xcode 4.4.1.
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> Should this really play such a role? In the end the installed GCC 4.7 is compiled by GCC 4.7…

One last comment on this issue. A bitter objection often heard from the other FSF gcc developers is that
Apple rarely fixes their assembler and linker bugs. While it is true that such fixes are never backported
to prior Xcode releases, on Lion we are fortunate to have had the opportunity to obtain all of the clang,
assembler and linker fixes added during the development of Mountain Lion and iOS 6. We should welcome the
opportunity to leverage those by encouraging users to use the improved cctools (as well as clang) in Xcode 4.5.
While I could have set the xcode dependency to 4.4.1, I choose 4.5 because the CLI installer in 4.4.1 was
buggy and would silenty fail leaving the user with the prior cctools. This issue is resolved in 4.5.
              Jack

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