muniversal port group

[David Strubbe]

I see, thanks for the clarifications.

David

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2018-2-10 07:04 , Joshua Root wrote:
> > On 2018-2-10 06:14 , David Strubbe wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I have a question about the muniversal port group, motivated by
> >> examining what happens with its usage in the fftw-3 port. If the
> >> +universal variant is selected, then appropriate values of
> >> configure.args are set for different architectures via
> >> merger_configure_args, which in the case of fftw-3 includes flags about
> >> whether support for certain vector intrinsics like SSE2 and AVX will be
> >> compiled. However, if +universal is not selected, then these flags are
> >> simply not used, rather than selecting the appropriate flag for the
> >> single architecture we are building for. As a result, currently in
> >> fftw-3, we are only enabling appropriate intrinsics for the architecture
> >> when doing +universal, and otherwise we have no intrinsics support.
> >>
> >> How is this supposed to work with the muniversal port group? Are flags
> >> needed when not +universal not expected to be set in this merger array?
> >> Is this a limitation of the port group that should be extended? Is there
> >> some option to set in the port group which I have missed?
> >
> > The muniversal portgroup is not involved at all if you're not building
> > with +universal. If you need to set certain flags in the non-universal
> > case, just do it.
>
> Looking at the Portfile, there appears to be code to set these sorts of
> flags in the non-universal case in the fftw-3-single subport, but none
> in the main fftw-3 port or the fftw-3-long subport.
>
> - Josh
>
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