Macports Newbie - XServe use

[Alex Kac]

It didn't. No biggie. Its probably not as well tested on OS X anyway.

Just spent the last hour compiling and installing perl modules for  
some our custom junk. Argh. I hate perl.

On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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.
>

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