https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87243
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Iain Sandoe from comment #1)
> I am strongly against making GCC's configure depend on xcrun. It is quite
> possible that GCC could be used, for example, with PureDarwin - or on
> systems without any Xcode install (using headers built from the OpenSource
> packages).
>
> So, yes we have to find a solution to finding the headers,
> but no, (at least I don't agree) that trying into yet another tool we don't
> control is that solution.
It could be conditional on system version. As long as there's a fallback path
for cases where there's no xcrun, it should be okay. See for example what the
emacs configure does:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/configure.ac#n73
