Dependency on developer tools

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 15:48, Michael Crawford wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> On 2009-10-24 07:00, Scott Haneda wrote:
>>> You just saddened me as I run multiple PPC servers :)
>>> Do you have stats?  I would be willing to wager there is a
>>> disproportionate amount of users that are on PPC using MacPorts.
>>
>> That has no effect on the fact that maintainers can only test on the
>> hardware they have.
>
> A workaround for that is to test PPC under Rosetta.  It's not a
> perfect test but it would be sufficient for most purposes.
>
> If one builds Universal, perhaps there could be some automated way to
> set up a test that would use Rosetta for everything.  One solution
> would be to use the find command to run lipo on all the executables,
> to delete all the Intel code, leaving just PowerPC.


Building universal, or cross-compiling, is pretty different from  
compiling on the actual machine. I wouldn't advocate this as a way to  
test PowerPC.