configure.build_arch

[Toby Peterson]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:05, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> --On September 15, 2009 4:01:43 PM -0700 Toby Peterson <toby at macports.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For the few ports that actually care, only --build makes any sense. We
>> don't support cross-compiling, and very few configure scripts get it
>> right anyway.
>
> I think Jack's point is that in 10.6 on a 32 bit kernel you effectively are
> cross-compiling whether you want to or not.  You're building 64 bit binaries
> on a system that claims to be a 32 bit system.  That seems like
> cross-compiling to me.  Am I misunderstanding something?

As I've noted numerous times now, config.guess still reports i386 on
K64, so this perceived problem exists regardless of the kernel
architecture.

- Toby