Macports Newbie - XServe use

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 19:13, Alex Kac wrote:

>> I haven't had a chance to use an Intel Xserve yet but I assume  
>> that anything you compile with MacPorts would end up 64-bit if  
>> you're on such an Xserve. If you find that's not the case and that  
>> we need to modify the portfiles in some way to make it happen, let  
>> us know.
>
> Interesting :) Does anyone on this list have experience with this?  
> OS X Tiger on the XServe (Quad core Xeons) supports 64-bit server  
> processes such as MySQL 64-bit, but its not a 64-bit OS per se. I  
> know Leopard comes with 64-bit Apache/MySQL.

Have you been able to test your mysql yet to see if it's 64-bit? I  
found this document describing how to get mysql to compile 64-bit (on  
PowerPC):

http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20050705130841426

That would imply that it doesn't automatically build 64-bit.