NEW: ophcrack port

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Cédric Luthi wrote:
> I have written a port for ophcrack, a windows password cracker. See  
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11114
>
> Ophcrack doesn't work on powerpc machines, I think it's because of  
> endianness issues. I have written a post-main (see http:// 
> trac.macports.org/projects/macports/attachment/ticket/11114/ 
> Portfile) that checks for intel processor and exits with an error  
> if it fails. Is it a good idea ? Is there a better/standard way to  
> deal with port supporting only specific architectures ?

You can use the platform variants:

platform powerpc {
	stuff that only gets run on PPC machines
}

platform i386 {
	stuff that only gets run on i386 machines
}

Macports (base) will automatically run the variant that matches the  
machine it's running on.
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