On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Your suggestion elsewhere in the thread to just use clang instead sounds >>> good to me. :) >> >> If possible, for the moment, I'd prefer to hold off on that >> sledge-hammer approach of unconditionally making the build use clang. >> It would be nice to have a more detailed understanding of what exactly >> is triggering the Apple compiler bug, and I've been trying to find >> time to check it out on my old Mac. > > The (fixed) patch posted was "on OSX 10.6, use clang by default"; I > think that for majority of the users, that is a reasonable thing to do. > > The result of the patch still allows those who want to see how badly > old Gcc breaks to do so with "make CC=gcc", doesn't it? I was not able to reproduce the problem on OSX 10.5.8. Since the patch applies specifically to 10.6 (via -eq) rather than "10.6 and earlier" (via -le) it happily does not break the build for older OSX releases (such as 10.5.8) which lack clang. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html