I am working on OS X 10.7 (Lion). I have installed gcc 4.7 from macports:
sudo port install gcc47
It seems to be working properly:
$ /opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.7 -v
(...)
gcc version 4.7.0 (GCC)
Now, I am trying to change default compiler by using port select:
$ sudo port select gcc mp-gcc47
Selecting 'mp-gcc47' for 'gcc' succeeded. 'mp-gcc47' is now active.
It copies gcc binary to /opt/local/bin/gcc, which works properly:
$ /opt/local/bin/gcc -v
(...)
gcc version 4.7.0 (GCC)
It also changes default gcc:
$ which gcc
/opt/local/bin/gcc
But running this default one does not work:
$ gcc -v
gcc-mp-4.7: error trying to exec '/opt/local/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2': execvp: No such file or directory
This binary "i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2" is the original Apple's provided gcc version; I don't know why it tries to look on it in /opt/local/bin, or even why it tries to run it at all. If I create symlink, it simply calls this binary, which is not what I want:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 /opt/local/bin
$ gcc -v
(...)
gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)
How to solve it, to make gcc working properly, by simply calling "gcc"? As far as I know, there was gcc_select tool in older OS X, but my system does not have it.