How do I find information about variants?
Hi, I am thinking about installing gcc42 using MacPorts. The Port has three variants: universal, darwin_8 and odcctools. However, I cannot find documentation on these variants. I would be especially interested in whether or not any of the variants makes the compiler usable as a drop-in replacement for apple's gcc, as in "is able to link to system framework". Thanks in advance, Markus
'universal' is a variant every port has (except for a single port currently). if it works, it builds a universal binary, meaning a binary for intel macs and one for ppc macs glued together. darwin_8 is nothing you need to woryy about. it's automatically chosen if you're running tiger and ignored if you're not. odcctools builds gcc42 using ar, as, ld, and libtool provided by the odcctools port. Regards, Elias Pipping On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Markus Weimer wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking about installing gcc42 using MacPorts. The Port has three variants: universal, darwin_8 and odcctools. However, I cannot find documentation on these variants.
I would be especially interested in whether or not any of the variants makes the compiler usable as a drop-in replacement for apple's gcc, as in "is able to link to system framework".
Thanks in advance,
Markus _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Hi, thanks for that explanation. So I can just go without any variant and get a gcc that is capable of linking to stuff that came with the OS? I want to use openmp for performance reasons and thus, I am also very interested in using the Accelrate Framework. And the original question remains: How would I have found out about this without bothering the mailing list? Thanks, Markus On 4/24/07, Elias Pipping <pipping@macports.org> wrote:
'universal' is a variant every port has (except for a single port currently). if it works, it builds a universal binary, meaning a binary for intel macs and one for ppc macs glued together.
darwin_8 is nothing you need to woryy about. it's automatically chosen if you're running tiger and ignored if you're not.
odcctools builds gcc42 using ar, as, ld, and libtool provided by the odcctools port.
Regards,
Elias Pipping
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Markus Weimer wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking about installing gcc42 using MacPorts. The Port has three variants: universal, darwin_8 and odcctools. However, I cannot find documentation on these variants.
I would be especially interested in whether or not any of the variants makes the compiler usable as a drop-in replacement for apple's gcc, as in "is able to link to system framework".
Thanks in advance,
Markus _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
On Apr 23, 2007, at 19:34, Markus Weimer wrote:
And the original question remains: How would I have found out about this without bothering the mailing list?
If the name of the variant does not explain its purpose, you can read the source code of the portfile ("port edit foo"). If that doesn't help, you can ask the port's maintainer.
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 (01:16 -0500 UTC) Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Apr 23, 2007, at 19:34, Markus Weimer wrote:
And the original question remains: How would I have found out about this without bothering the mailing list?
If the name of the variant does not explain its purpose, you can read the source code of the portfile ("port edit foo"). If that doesn't help, you can ask the port's maintainer.
The command % port cat foo | ${PAGER} is a bit lighter in w[a|e][i|gh]t -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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