On May 13, 2011, at 05:03, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- I've been trying to compile the latest GCC (4.6.0) on my Snow Leopard > machine, without much success. > So I was wondering if there was a working port of this expected any time soon? > If not, could whoever got the beta to work (assuming it hasn't the same > problems my own attempts to install 4.6 suffered) possibly let me know how > they got it to compile correctly? > Does the beta work correctly? (I'll check later, but thought I'd ask in case > there are any known issues.) > There seem to be numerous subtleties in the Mac OS that my attempts have > broken against -- the latest being how GCC wants to handle empty strings vs. > how OSX wants to: The former wants to use a static empty string to optimise > memory usage, but OSX doesn't. This leads to code using string buffers being > borked. > In the meantime, I'm developing my C++11 code in a VM running Ubuntu, but > would really like to be developing on my Mac as a first-class citizen.
The gcc46 port, as all other ports, ought to work, but sometimes ports are broken. If this port is broken, as with any other broken port, please file a ticket in the issue tracker with more details (e.g. the complete main.log file and information about your computer, OS and Xcode), if one does not already exist. I don't know why Marcus hasn't updated gcc46 to version 4.6.0 proper as was already requested: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29184 However, the snapshot version the port is at -- 4.6-20110325 -- was released the same day as 4.6.0, so it should be nearly equivalent, or even identical, to 4.6.0. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
