Re: [PATCH 2/3] ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job

Jeff King
2024-05-10T20:16:24Z

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 09:00:14AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> > We'll eventually have to bump "gcc-13" to "gcc-14" here, and so on. I
> > don't think we ever cared about gcc-13 in particular; it's just that
> > older versions of the runner image had some ancient version which we
> > wanted to avoid.
>
> As an alternative we could munge PATH such that Homebrew's GCC is found
> before Apple's.

Ideally, yeah, but it's not just a PATH issue. AFAICT there literally is
no "gcc" in any PATH, only the version specific ones (even if you "brew
install gcc").

So you'd need something like:

for i in /usr/local/bin/gcc-*
do
# rely on sorting of glob to do last-one-wins
gcc=$i
done

-Peff