[Aquamacs-devel] future gcc releases on OS X -- they may be going away

[Sidney Markowitz]

Brian Barnes wrote, On 23/9/09 10:35 AM:
> Fellow OS X coders,
> 
> First, I apologize for this off-topic post, but I hope it is of  
> interest to you all. I use Aquamacs nearly every day to code in  
> Fortran and Python (my Fortran codes are compiled using gcc/gfortran),  

I guess it isn't off topic if it means that we soon will have to make 
sure that emacs and Aquamancs can be built using llvm/clang

I do notice this ray of hope for Fortran on the Mac in the LLVM 2.5 
release notes:

http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

   LLVM 2.5 includes several major new capabilities:
    [ ... ]
    * llvm-gcc now generally supports the GFortran front-end, and the 
precompiled release binaries now support Fortran, even on Mac OS/X.