<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">And just to add my input, your efforts are GREATLY appreciated.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Jeffrey Walton <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:noloader@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">noloader@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2ny" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">So I'm clear: MacPorts does not test compiling under the compiler it<br class="">
provides? Is that correct?</div></blockquote></div><br class="">MacPorts only uses those compilers when clang will not work. It uses the system compiler whenever possible, to avoid possible compatibility issues. In general, the gcc* compilers are provided for users to use and/or for those (few) ports that won't work with the Xcode-provided clang.<br class=""><br class="">I have this feeling you were expecting something like a Linux distribution, a full ecosystem that is regression tested with itself.</div><div class="gmail_extra">MacPorts is a BSD ports-like system intended to make available things that are not provided with OS X, on a best effort basis.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank" class="">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div class="">unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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