Universal Binaries

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 23, 2009, at 09:11, <timlee at rochester.rr.com>  
<timlee at rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> Timothy Lee wrote:
>>> Do you know if its possible for me (on leopard) to build x86 code  
>>> (all
>>> my macports ports) that will also run on Tiger?
>>> Short of physical access to an intel 10.4 install, is there  
>>> anything I
>>> can do?
>>
>> Don't forget to use Reply All so the discussion goes to the list as
>> well. There are no guarantees that this will work, but the way to do
>> what you want would be to set universal_target to 10.4,
>> universal_sysroot to /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk, and
>> universal_archs to i386. Then build everything with +universal  
>> (best to
>> add it to your variants.conf).

Also set x11prefix to /usr/X11R6; Leopard's X11 prefix /usr/X11 does  
not exist on Tiger.


> Thanks for the tip!
> Has anyone tried this? Success/failure stories?

openssl failed for me when I tried it this way on Leopard. Switching  
back to 10.5 and the 10.5 SDK fixed it.