Message-ID: <8FCFEF30-4CAE-4882-A3B8-0A67E0785004@r-project.org>
Date: 2012-02-17T16:39:18Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: [Rcpp-devel] [Somewhat OT] New OS X compilers
In-Reply-To: <20286.28863.130200.698607@max.nulle.part>
On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> Via Twitter I came across this post
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> http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html
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> which implies that there is now a new, official, supported gcc available for
> OS X. Could some Rcpp users comment on this?
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This has no real meaning - it just says that you can download Xcode in parts.
In fact the most recent Xcode is a regression - up until now clang (most recent compiler available for OS X from Apple) was installed by default, but that is no longer the case.
> Can we now lift the 'it has to pass g++ 4.2.1' restriction?
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The above is still gcc 4.2, Apple won't move from there due to GPL-v3 tainting any more recent version of gcc. Our best hope is clang. Did you check Rcpp against clang?
Cheers,
Simon
> Simon: Will this be reflected (eventually) in CRAN / R-Forge / RForge builds?
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> Dirk
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