configure.build_arch

[Anders F Björklund]

Jack Howarth wrote:

>    Reading through the commits on the configure.build_arch feature
> in port, I am rather surprised that invoking that doesn't also
> set the triplets for configure as well as passing the -m32 or
> -m64 compiler flags. Wouldn't you at least want to set
> --target= to the appropriate value so that configure understood
> what architecture it was going to build for? I suppose such a
> change might be an option to patching config.guess for those
> Portfiles that use configure.build_arch. This would make sure
> that configure was given --target=x86_64-apple-darwin9/10
> when -m64 (or -arch x86_64?) was passed through the invoking
> configure.build_arch.

We set the triplets back when we were (ab)using +universal
to do cross-compilation, with the three universal_ flags:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-February/ 
004358.html

It never worked very well, so in MacPorts 1.8.0 it was all
ripped out in favor of the much simpler build_arch solution...

--anders