Re: Effects of Fink / MacPorts [was: PCRE library requirement]

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:

> 
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 18:06 , ext bpabbott wrote:
> 
>> Also does MacPorts supply a gfortran patched to work correctly with Apple's 
>> gcc-4.2.1, or did you use the AT&T version (you've likely mentioned this, 
>> but I've forgotten).
>> 
> 
> I've used the AT&T version with Apple GCC 4.2, and native gfortran versions 
> with later GCC releases.
> 
> I do not think macports supports building with the AT&T version, although I 
> think it would be rather easy to make a Portfile that downloads and installs 
> the AT&T gfortran, but to be supported as a compiler for building other ports 
> likely would require an update on the macports itself.
> 
>  Jarno

You you mixed the versions of gcc when using libtool2 to build an app/library? 
Octave is the only app I'm building that uses libtool. For the others linking 
object code from gfortran-fsf-4.4 with gcc-4.2.1 (Apple's gcc) is not a problem.

Ben