The road to MacPorts 1.8.0

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jun 16 20:12:49 PDT 2009


On 2009-6-17 12:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 15:30, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> It's not like 10.6 can't build for ppc, but sure, why not.
> 
> Are you talking about pure darwin? Apple has repeatedly said, including
> in the WWDC 09 keynote, that Snow Leopard will be for Intel only, so for
> our target audience of Mac OS X users we don't need to worry about this.
> For the hypothetical powerpc pure darwin 10 users, I think it's fine for
> now if they have to change the universal_archs manually.

No, I wasn't thinking about puredarwin at all actually. My mind was
somewhere between 1.7's not-really-working universal_target +
universal_sysroot, and the proposed target OS support:
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19875>

So yeah, it makes no sense for 1.8 to try building for ppc on 10.6.

- Josh


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