cross compiling mac ports and intel vs. PPC architecture

[Daniel Ericsson]

On 5 jan 2007, at 05.24, David Smoot wrote:

> I assume my ports are running with that Rosetta translation  
> module.  Will they run faster if I do a clean re-compile?

Yes as well as using less memory for bytecode caching.

> I wonder if there might be some way to add an option to similar to  
> selfupdate that is a an"arch-migrate" target that recompiles all  
> targets for the new architecture.

Presumably a force upgrade of all installed ports will recompile them  
for i386.

sudo port -f upgrade installed

I myself would take the opportunity to clean out stuff and start with  
a fresh /opt in a move from a PB to a Macbook.

- Daniel