crosscompiling macports, how hard is it?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 15:36, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> In addition, the Mozilla project has a script (unfortunately I  
> forget the exact name) which takes 2 single-architecture trees and  
> combines them via lipo. It creates a new tree that contains all  
> files that are the same in the 2 old trees. Any differing files  
> that are binaries it combines via lipo. Any differing files that  
> aren't binaries it tosses (can't do anything else with them), so  
> you have to be careful in some projects (if, say, it builds a  
> header file for distribution that changes per-architecture), but in  
> general it works quite well.

I was very interested in such a script, and found it inside the  
Firefox 2.0.0.1 source tarball. It's called "unify" and it works  
great for me (in a non-MacPorts context).