Interesting survey on Snow Leopard package managers

[Jack Howarth]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:11:39AM -0400, Eric Tiffany wrote:
> This Ars Techica thread has a survey about package managers on Snow Leopard,
> and an accompanying thread regarding some of these 64bit issues.
> 
> http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/494000521041/showpollresults/Y

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Eric,
   As I said in a couple threads this weekend, the smartest thing for 
MacPorts to do is adopt the usage of the config.guess patch (that is being
evaluated by the config.guess maintainers) which I used to fix the gcc44
package here (tickets 20838 and 21341). Assuming you don't want to bother
supporting i386 builds on Snow Leopard machines that are defaulting to
x86_64 code, this is the most transparent solution. The only alternative
is to resort to what fink does in their packaging, test the default
architecture with sysctl and then manually pass the --build/--host/--target
triplets to configure.
   I told there are a number of other packages broken on Snow Leopard
in MacPorts because of the same issue. Does anyone have a list? I'll try
them locally with the config.guess patch and add or open tickets for that
fix.
           Jack