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

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 09:14, William Davis wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>>>> Not installing dependencies universal causes issues like this:
>>>>
>>>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20912
>>>
>>> Its just my opinion of course but I intensely dislike the idea of  
>>> being forced to build all of my numerous ports "universal" instead  
>>> of just fixing the ones that need to be 32 bit.
>>
>> 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..

But then we'd need to force all of wine's dependencies to be built  
universal... And what about when wine needs a new dependency, we then  
need to add that one to the list of ports to be forced universal.