Default +universal variant for configure-based ports
Paul Guyot
pguyot at kallisys.net
Sun Feb 25 20:45:09 PST 2007
Dear all,
I've just implemented and committed a default +universal variant for
configure-based ports. There's been some heat about +universal
recently and I did not want every port to define the same code over
and over.
This variant is more or less equivalent to:
variant universal {
configure.args-append "--disable-dependency-tracking"
configure.env-append CFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/
MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc"
}
However, there is some additional magic:
* selecting the variant will fail if the port doesn't invoke
configure (because user may think they can build the port universal
while it would be effectless)
* selecting the variant will print a warning message if the port
already overrides LDFLAGS or CFLAGS in the environment for the
configure command
* you can add -O -g if the port requires it with just:
configure.universal_cflags-append -O -g
* you can simply redefine the variant to override the default code
and provide port-specific handler for the universal variant.
etc.
The variant is documented in portfile(7). I tested it with several
ports and it seems to just work®™.
I'm considering some future enhancements, but let's see what it gives
if we start building ports with +universal. Of course, the build will
probably fail if dependencies were not built universal.
Enjoy!
Paul
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