List of universal archs in base (was: [31959] trunk/dports/devel/openssl)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 12, 2007, at 12:52, mww at macports.org wrote:

> +	post-patch {
> +#		foreach arch {i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64}
> +		foreach arch {i386 ppc} {
> +			file copy ${worksrcpath} ${workpath}/${arch}
> +		}
> +	}

Perhaps we should define this list of universal architectures in  
MacPorts base itself, so that ports that want to do something for  
each arch will already have the array ready to go rather than have to  
define it themselves -- possibly differently from base, which would  
be inconsistent.

Such a definition (let's call it "universal_archs", maybe) should  
probably go above the definition of configure.universal_args in  
portconfigure.tcl. The contents of this array should be used to build  
up a new variable (how about "universal_arch_flags") which ends up  
looking like "-arch i386 -arch ppc". This string can then be used to  
build up configure.universal_cflags, configure.universal_cxxflags and  
configure.universal_ldflags.

Anyone agree? Disagree?