Metaport

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-10-15 23:04, vincent habchi wrote:
> Le 15 oct. 2009 à 12:03, Joshua Root a écrit :
> 
>> On 2009-10-15 20:39, vincent habchi wrote:
>>> Is there a way to write a "meta-port", a Portfile that would call
>>> another Portfile?
>>
>> With the aim of accomplishing what?
> 
> Universal variant for the Atlas port. It is not possible to rely on a
> traditional x-way build because the code compiles asm code to detect CPU
> type (it is strongly optimized). Muniversal won't work either, so the
> solution I was thinking of is to do a first build in 64-bit mode then
> another in 32-bit mode then lipo the results.

That is, in theory at least, exactly what muniversal does. If it doesn't
do what you need in this case, fixing it is a better idea than
reinventing the wheel.

- Josh