[Ns-developers] osx compiler is ugly

[Tom Henderson]

L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> Mac OS X Leopard (intel and ppc) ships with gcc 4.0.1. Later
> versions are available, but it's unlikely that users will install
> them (and they introduce their own fun, e.g. gcc 4.4 deprecating
> varargs.h in favour of stdarg.h)
> 
> Really, the compiler's the least of the problems. Leopard's linker
> is generally regarded as... interesting.
> 
> <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk>

I upgraded gcc to 4.2 on that machine, and left a note in the wiki on 
how to do it (it is very straightforward).

Tom