On May 21, 2021, at 09:00, Eric Borisch wrote:
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> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:56 PM Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> rev-upgrade only checks library linkage. If you're saying that this software
>> links with a library inside Xcode, and that the install name of that library
>> varies by Xcode version such that the software linked with the library in
>> one version of Xcode fails with a library file not found error when Xcode is
>> upgraded to a new version, then yes rev-upgrade would detect that.
>> Otherwise, no it would not.
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> If someone installs MacPorts without following the directions (installing
> xcode / command line tools), they might (don't know, I haven't tried doing
> that) end up downloading a package that tries (via mpicc / mpicxx) to run a
> compiler that isn't there. (Since running mpicc requires the wrapped cc to be
> present.) But looking at the binaries and libraries in mpich-default, I don't
> think rev-upgrade would catch anything.
A compiler is a program, not a library, so you're correct that rev-upgrade
would not notice anything about that.
The list of compilers provided by Xcode hasn't changed in a long time, as it?
It's been only clang since Xcode 5, hasn't it?
