Re: [MacPorts] #44367: arb @6.0: failed to detect COMPILER_NAME (got 'unknown', expected 'clang' or 'gcc'). Stop.

25 Jul 2014

      #44367: arb @6.0: failed to detect COMPILER_NAME (got 'unknown', expected 'clang'
or 'gcc').  Stop.
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  Reporter:  ryandesign@…  |      Owner:  matt.cottrell@…
      Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports         |    Version:  2.3.1
Resolution:                |   Keywords:
      Port:  arb           |
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Comment (by matt.cottrell@…):

 Replying to [comment:3 ryandesign@…]:
...
The problem seems to be this line of
 SOURCE_TOOLS/arb_compiler_version.pl:
{{{
      if ($detailedVersion =~ /apple.*llvm.*clang/oi) {
 $detectedCompiler = 'clang'; }
}}}
It assumes `clang --version` will contain output matching
 `/apple.*llvm.*clang/oi` but it was only in Xcode 4.6 that Apple changed
 the output from "`Apple clang`" to "`Apple LLVM`" so the above line will
 fail on earlier versions of clang from Xcode versions 3.2.3 through 4.5.x
 inclusive.
This entire method of attempting to detect clang is really bad, though.
 A better way would be to just check the return value of:
{{{
$CC -dM -E -x c /dev/null | grep -q __clang__
}}}
`0` means it's clang, `1` means it isn't.
Thanks, I'll bring this up with the upstream developers of arb.

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