what's the plan for mac os x lion

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:16, Blair Zajac wrote:

> On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>> All of the ports that are in my install-set (including many multimedia ports, x11, firefox, gnome, with most bloat variants set) have been working with trunk/base using llvm-gcc-4.2 on SL and Lion for a while now (trunk/base now chooses the compiler based on devtools version rather than os version).  I'm still holding on to a couple NDA-squimish patches in leaf projects that I'll push after the actual release, but it mostly works out of the box.
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>> If you are uncertain if filing your bug would violate your NDA, please feel free to email me directly.
> 
> Out of curiosity, Apple hasn't bumped to a newer gcc version?  Does anybody know why?  Did they stick with 4.2 for compatibility for libstdc++?

gcc-4.2 was Leopard's preferred compiler.  It was replaced with llvm-gcc as the preferred compiler in Snow Leopard.  If you want to know about Lion, you can watch the WWDC talks if you have an ADC account.

--Jeremy