Ports Linking in Carbon

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Nov 3 12:59:14 PDT 2010


On 2010-11-4 01:01 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> PSPP itself doesn't make use of Carbon but something down the chain of dependencies causes it to be linked in.
> 
> Do we have any [upcoming] policies about inclusion of Carbon in ports?

Nothing official. The best approach IMO is to disable use of 32-bit-only
APIs when building for 64-bit, if that's possible and doesn't
unreasonably affect functionality. If those last two points are not
true, then set supported_archs appropriately in the affected ports.

- Josh


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