universal binaries seems difficult

Bengt Nilsson bengt.nilsson11 at spray.se
Thu Aug 9 05:35:15 PDT 2007


Creating portfiles/Makefiles for universal binary builds seems not so  
easy.

Example:

port install zlib -universal
produces a fat ppc/i386 library on a ppc machine, while it produces  
non-fat i386 library on an intel platform.
port install freetype -universal
produces non-fat i386 libraries on an intel mac, while the  
installation stops with errors on a ppc mac.
port install rxvt -universal
produces a non-fat i386 executable on an intel mac and a non-fat ppc  
executable on a ppc mac.


Is this the rule, that the MacPort -universal directive is ignored or  
has unpredictable results for most ports?




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