A PortGroup for building more 32/64-bit universal packages

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:13:47PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> Another interesting point about the default universal arches is that  
> today, they're set to "i386 ppc" whereas "the future" would tend to  
> suggest that "i386 x86_64" will be a better choice, so at some point the 
> defaults are also going to have to change.  Is this a knob that we  
> currently support setting on a site-specific basis?

universal_archs in etc/macports/macports.conf is probably what you're
looking for; setting to 'i386 x86_64' and building +universal does work, for
at least those ports that can build 64bit.

Bryan


>
> - Jordan
>
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:
>
>> I have a need of more 32/64-bit universal packages.
>> To facilitate this, I would like to propose a PortGroup with a  
>> different
>> universal build mechanism than the default.
>> See http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17972.
>>
>> It is intended to be an improvement of the merge function.
>>
>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>> The only time I write in Tcl is on MacPorts related projects.
>>
>> -Marcus
>>