On 11 December 2016 at 16:53, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Let me ask once more: is there anything currently available that makes it > easier/less work to add variants that select a gcc compiler? I've been > looking at the compilers PG, but cannot assess from the preamble comments > whether it's meant to do what I'm looking for or not.
Maybe the compilers portgroup indeed does part of what you want, but you would still have to provide the logic to tell when to switch to a particular variant. MacPorts doesn't support building ports with gcc (in particular not for the sake of supporting C++11). It might work if no C++ interfaces are used in dependencies / dependents, but your ports might crash if Qt5 is built against a differest libstdc++. MP officially supports using libc++. Problems are still to be expected even then, but it makes more sense to build the port with clang against libc++ than to suggest using gcc. Mojca
