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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 10, 2024, 20:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20240510201623.GF1954863@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Zj3F_paYzkQUC9fC@tanuki>

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

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> > 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