Snow Leopard +universal necessity
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Sep 2 06:06:02 PDT 2009
On Snow Leopard, we build x86_64 by default. But there are some ports,
e.g. wine, that cannot build 64-bit, so they force themselves to build
32-bit instead. But that means all the dependencies must also be 32-
bit, or 32-/64-bit universal. So it seems like it should probably be
our recommendation to all Snow Leopard users to install all possible
ports +universal for x86_64/i386, to avoid pain down the road when the
user wants to install a port that happens to only be available as 32-
bit. Most easily this could be accomplished by putting "+universal"
into variants.conf. Maybe we should even do so in the default
variants.conf on Snow Leopard.
Not installing dependencies universal causes issues like this:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20912
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