Hi, ----- On 7 Jul, 2015, at 23:35, Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com wrote:

I'm a novice Macports user. A user claimed a program segfaulted when using Macport's version of g++, so I'm trying to investigate the issue.

Don't mail to macports-tickets; it's a mailing list that largely doesn't see anything but automated mails from our ticket system.

I attempted to install g++, but it resulted in an error:

$ sudo port install g++ Password: Error: Port g++ not found

I attempted to search for the package name, but its returning 0 results: https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=g%2B%2B.

I know Macports has g++ somewhere, but I don't know where.

g++ is part of the GNU compiler collection, which is called GCC. This will list the versions of GCC (and thus, g++) available from MacPorts: $> port search --line --name --regex '^gcc[0-9]+'

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Perhaps it would be a good idea to alias g++ to the latest g++ package so things just worked. Advanced users who know the package name are still free to use their mastery of Macports to install different versions.

Perhpas it would be a good idea if searching for g++ returned g++ packages.

Did you try port search g++? (I cannot, I'm not at my Mac atm). -- Clemens Lang