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Clang 5 in a Docker container for C++17 development

by octopus on 12/15/17, 12:39 PM with 2 comments

• by ryanpepper on 12/15/17, 1:00 PM

  > The last point is especially important if your host operating system is macOS, on which it is a really bad idea to directly install a binary Clang other than the one that comes with Xcode.

  Why is this? I mean, I understand why you don't want to install over the system compiler, but having another version of Clang installed side by side shouldn't be an issue, should it?