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[Tim Lee]

Does building +universal (setting universal_target to 10.4 & setting universal_sysroot to a 10.4 sdk) properly select Darwin 8 variants? Or does this have the same issue with selecting Darwin 9 variants?

thanks


---- Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote: 
> Timothy Lee wrote:
> > So here is the issue...
> > I can't compile universal. The project that I'm building for includes
> > too many macports ports and I can't get all of the macports to
> > successfully install.
> > 
> > I DO have a 10.4 PPC machine that has successfully built everything that
> > I need (obviously with no args added, its targeting 10.4).
> > I want to build a 10.4 i386 build on my leopard i386 machine.
> > When this is complete, I'll 'lipo' together all pieces of each
> > individual tree (using mozilla's 'unify' script).
> > 
> > I have tried adding +universal to my variants.conf and changing my
> > macports.conf to universal_target to 10.4, universal_sysroot to the 10.4
> > sdk, and universal_archs to ONLY i386 (as per your suggestion).
> > Unfortunately this didn't work (too many assumptions in macports
> > regarding the +universal variant and having at least two archs present).
> > 
> > So now my only option is to explicitly drive into macports my CFLAGS,
> > LDFLAGS, and most importantly my MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET vars.
> > 
> > Is it possible to 'pass in' this information to macports?
> 
> You should be able to override macosx_deployment_target,
> configure.cflags and configure.ldflags on the command line using
> "name=value" syntax. Note that there will still be problems with this,
> as platform darwin 9 variants will be selected when building on Leopard
> (and you want to target darwin 8). MP just doesn't have a good way of
> targeting another platform at present.
> 
> - Josh