is archcheck portgroup history?

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Fri Aug 6 14:23:22 PDT 2010


On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 15:47, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>
>>>> Could we use lipo on it and append the registry rather then  
>>>> rebuild?
>>>
>>> How would MacPorts know which file to lipo? Should it try all of  
>>> them until it finds one that is a binary and use that? What if the  
>>> port installs files that aren't all the same architecture?
>>
>> How does it use lipo now?
>
> Currently, ports using the archcheck portgroup must specify which  
> file to lipo.

I am creating a dovecot2 port for the upcoming release of dovecot v2  
and archcheck was in the dovecot v1 port.

I was wanting to understand what archcheck does and if it was still  
needed.

Should I add portgroup archcheck to the new dovecot2 port?


Thanks,
Brad


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