variant or platform

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 23:49, Yves de Champlain wrote:

> Le 07-07-11 à 00:25, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
>
>> As for "variant x86", the correct syntax would be "platform i386",  
>> wouldn't it? I don't see any ports with "platform x86", and nobody  
>> with an Intel Mac is currently automatically getting a variant  
>> called "x86", as far as I know. And since those users are not  
>> complaining, I must conclude that whatever is in the x86 variant  
>> is not in fact necessary for Intel Macs, and may in fact be  
>> harmful. So each of the x86 variants should be specifically  
>> examined and only retained if found to still be necessary. I mean,  
>> up until not too long ago, the only way to use MacPorts on an x86  
>> processor was to use an OS other than Mac OS X, right?
>
> Mmm i386 is for intel, sure.  But x86 targets a wider set of  
> platforms (intel and AMD).  So I always saw i386 as a subset of x86.
>
> Am I far off ?


On Jul 11, 2007, at 00:26, Yves de Champlain wrote:

> I just saw "platform intel"  Does that really work ?


I really have no idea about "x86" or "platform intel". Where is the  
code in base that autoselects platforms? We could look there to see  
what it supports.