[petsc-dev] defaulting gnu compilers on Apple

[Barry Smith]

On Oct 30, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>     I think ./configure still defaults to using gcc/g++ on Apple if
>>     just run. Can you please change this in petsc-dev to default to
>>     the clang compilers clang and clang++
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter because Apple now considers "gcc" to be a
> spelling of Clang…

   That I do not think is completely the case. Yes it uses “a variant” of clang for gcc but it is NOT EXACTLY the same as calling the clang compiler directly.

   Barry