PPC / i386 universal building

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-9-17 11:54, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
> 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.

Can't imagine why, but I'll take your word for it.

> 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?

Building universal on ppc still works as well as it ever did.

> 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?

Xcode 3.2, and by extension MacPorts, is capable of building for all the
archs that Xcode 3.1 could. The one caveat is that you can't target an
older OS version with MacPorts.

- Josh