confusion in base regarding [option os.arch] and ${os.arch}

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Oct 8 03:34:18 PDT 2009


On 2009-10-8 21:11, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Joshua Root wrote:
>> But the architecture of the machine that did the build has nothing to do
>> with build_arch...
> 
> It should have, otherwise it would be cross-compiling to another arch ?
> (which is interesting in itself, but not supported by MacPorts afaik)

Building for ppc on an x86 machine should work fine AFAIK (thanks to
Rosetta), building for x86 on ppc probably less so.

- Josh


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