PPC / i386 universal building

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Toby Peterson <toby at macports.org> wrote:
> Ok, your situation is special because you're trying to build universal
> *and* you're on ppc. That's a pretty doomed combination. Building
> i386/ppc universal on ppc is quite unlikely to work for many ports.

Prior to snow leopard, universal included ppc/i386 building. Those of
us still on 10.5 will still need this.

If 1.8 is unable to reliably build universal on ppc, then is there a
way to go back to the earlier version (1.7.xx), or is the port tree
and port program tied together such that 1.7 won't work anymore?

More to the point, is there any way to build ppc/i386 universal apps?
10.6 won't produce these at all, as I understand it; will 10.5 on x86
hardware produce ppc/i386 universals with the current macports?