Interesting survey on Snow Leopard package managers

[Toby Peterson]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:19, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:25:38AM -0700, Toby Peterson wrote:
>>
>> Our current approach (passing -arch) seems to be working fine - I
>> think both of your suggestions are bit heavy-handed considering *most*
>> ports work just fine with -arch flags.
>>
>> - Toby
>
>   Granted gcc is an extreme case but it is VERY unwise to
> assume that configure will never set anything that architecture
> dependent when the wrong triplet are passed. For example, if
> there is any hard coded assembly language routines in the code,
> the wrong assembly code will be selected by configure. Not passing the
> correct triplet to configure or correcting config.guess is
> simply bad technique.

Indeed, and for the (very few) ports that require tweaking, we can
make the necessary changes. I've already committed dozens of fixes to
correct these types of issues.

- Toby