[Development] [Announce] Changes to building Qt on Mac OS X

[Olivier Goffart]

On Wednesday 03 April 2013 12:38:28 Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> On 4/3/13 12:31 , Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 12:28:06 Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> >> It also allows us to provide Clang as an option
> >> when building on 10.6, as the choice is not dependent on the OSX version
> >> but the Xcode version (and hence toolchain availability).
> > 
> > Does this mean we can/should upgrade the minimum GCC requirement to more
> > recent than 4.2?
> 
> Unfortunately not. Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard (10.6) comes with GCC 4.2.1.

So it is not possible to target Snow Leopard with a more recent version of 
XCode?
Can't we require a recent version of XCode even if the users wish to deploy on 
a old target?

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Olivier 

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