[Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Snow Leopard +universal necessity

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Wed Sep 2 09:35:30 PDT 2009


On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:14 PM, William Davis wrote:
>> While some (xulrunner, firefox) just need new inline-asm to be  
>> written for 64bit support, others (wine) may *NEVER* actually work  
>> in 64bit.  It may be the case that users need a 32bit wine for  
>> win32 and a 64bit wine for win64.  ... so it's not really trivially  
>> fixable when it is by design.
>
> Jeremy, I'm sorry to be that unclear: what I meant was "modify the  
> port file to build universal" for each port that needed that.  In  
> other words fix the individual port files as needed instead of  
> building all ports universal..


William,

You seem to be missing the idea that the 64bit version of a port needs  
64bit versions of all its dependencies (and a 32bit version likewise  
needs a 32bit version of all of its dependencies).

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