configure.build_arch

[Mike Alexander]

--On September 15, 2009 5:18:32 PM -0700 Toby Peterson 
<toby at macports.org> wrote:

> 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.

Ok, that just seems to make the problem worse.  Even after switching to 
the 64 bit kernel you're still cross-compiling, right?

          Mike