2-architecture +universal variants please (was: Re: [32999] trunk/base/ChangeLog)

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> [snip]
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>> +    - Enable 64 bit environment, ppc64 x86_64, for all +universal  
>> builds (mww in r32194).
>
> May I change this so that we only build 32-bit versions again,  
> please? I've already encountered ports that built fine as 32-bit  
> universals that fail as 64-bit universals. Also, we still haven't  
> thought of a solution for all the users who already have 32-bit  
> +universal ports installed. What happens when they upgrade to a  
> version of MacPorts that includes this change and continue building  
> +universal ports? Everything goes to Hell, that's what happens,  
> because the new ports want to build 4 architectures but the  
> existing dependencies are only built with 2 architectures.
>
> If nobody offers a clear objection to this in 72 hours I'll change  
> it to just the two 32-bit architectures again.


	Thanks for bringing this up, Ryan, take a look at my recent message  
about the upcoming 1.6.1 release. I'm keeping this change out of the  
release_1_6 branch for now, pending mww's advise for merging or not.

	However, if the situation is as bad as you describe, not only will I  
keep it out of 1.6.1 for longer, but I'd also vote for the decision  
to build 64bits to be reverted. Lets please hear what Markus has to  
say about it first.

	Regards,...


-jmpp