Universal Binaries

Timothy Lee TimLee at rochester.rr.com
Sat Jan 24 10:05:38 PST 2009


Harry-
You made reference to adding the -x11 tag to your variants.conf.
By doing this, do you force macports to use Apple's X11? Or is it  
something else entirely different?

thanks


On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Harry van der Wolf wrote:

> 2009/1/24 Timothy Lee <TimLee at rochester.rr.com>
> Thanks for the reply Harry-
> I'm fairly sure that I will need to lipo together the builds for  
> Musicbrainz' Picard.
> So - in your experience what are all the options that I must set  
> after a fresh src install to have a 10.5 setup building binaries for  
> 10.4?
>
>
> Nothing more than setting the right options in your macports.conf  
> and then see how far you get.
>
>
>
> 2009/1/24 Timothy Lee <timlee at rochester.rr.com>
>
> On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> If I do this, how will I be able to run the executables on my 10.5  
> setup?
>
>
>
> I ran into the same issue and simply decided to make links.
>
> On Tiger I simply did "sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11". If you build  
> on Tiger and bring them to Leopard you do
> "sudo ln -s /usr/X11 /usr/X11R6".
>
> This works only on your own system off course, unless you make an  
> installer that checks whether it runs on Tiger or Leopard and  
> creates a softlink accordingly.
>
> Harry
>
>
>
>
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