Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

[David Chase]

Problem solved:  /Developer consider harmful, at least on Mountain Lion.
Removing that and using the compilers installed by XCode in /usr/bin did the trick.

HOWEVER - it seems dubious to me that configure should ignore the environment specification of CXX.
I tried the following,
where /usr/local/bin/g++ is a 4.8.0 compiler that configure will accept if it appears first on the path
(this does not lead to a happy build, it merely demonstrates that the compiler is acceptable to configure):

(1) sh ./configure CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++
(2) CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++ sh ./configure

I tried (2) because of ambiguous language from sh ./configure -help:

  To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as
  VAR=VALUE.  See below for descriptions of some of the useful variables.

I understand that environment variable bindings precede the command on the command line,
but the instructions did not say this explicitly, so I tried it both ways.

I verified that my "sh" is not doing anything non-standard with its environment:

bash-3.2$ CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++ sh -c printenv | grep CXX
CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++

In both cases this was the result of the configure:

Tools summary:
* Boot JDK:       ...
* C Compiler:     i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build) version 2336.11.00) (at /usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2)
* C++ Compiler:   i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build) version 2336.11.00) (at /usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/llvm-g++-4.2)

So, bug?

David