<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 9:06 AM, René J. V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":re" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">*) a white list is a list of acceptable items which is checked against what's<br>
available</div></blockquote></div><br>The point of the whitelist is to deal with buggy compilers. If 3.7 is preferred then it usually means that 3.6 can't build a working version of the port; as such, it would be expected to install a compiler that will build the port, not fail to build (or worse, build a nonworking program) because someone has a preferred version installed.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">`port select` should never affect what compiler is used to build a port; if it does, that is a bug.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Compilers you have installed manually (i.e. not via MacPorts) should not be used to build ports; if one is, that is a bug.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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