Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] fix Mac OS X build

[Felix Winkelmann]

> 
> I don't see why not.  chicken should be using /usr/bin as its binary 
> directory, and so when xcode-select changes the install location, it will 
> still work.   (I think the shims just look up the actual XCode location and 
> then exec() it -- they're not symlinks nor are they physically updated in 
> place, AFAIK.)  Am I missing something?

If I compile the base chicken system using toolchain/xcode-version A
with the c-compiler in some default location, xcode-select to another
toolchain/xcode-version and then install an egg using the base chicken
system, that calls whatever c-compiler is currently in /usr/bin, then
we surely might get into trouble regarding binary-compatibility or
c-compiler version differences, ABIs, or whatnot, right?


felix