macports and Xcode

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Sun Oct 12 12:54:09 PDT 2008


Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> I really don't want to have to build or use a bootstrapped GCC, X11
>> and all to have a self-contained MacPorts installation.
>
> Also, don't forget that only Apple's gcc installed with Xcode can  
> create universal binaries in one step (with e.g. "-arch i386 -arch  
> ppc"), which is the method MacPorts uses. The standard gcc cannot  
> do this.

Unless you install Apple's gcc without Xcode, of course :-)
So a bootstrapped GCC might still have -arch parameters.

--anders



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