Universal Binaries

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Mon Jan 26 05:40:16 PST 2009


On 2009-01-24 19:25:51 +0100, Harry van der Wolf wrote:
> It is something completely different. Most linux, netbsd and freebsd
> packages rely on X11. MacOSX has support for x11 but the native
> windowing system of MacOSX is aqua. Using the -x11 option means that
> you don't build for X11. An increasing amount of binaries and
> libraries support native aqua and in that case I don't want to build
> for X11. It's slower, bigger (X11 takes also memory and resources
> next to the already available aqua) and ugglier. But the last is off
> course a matter of taste.

But in MacPorts, is it possible to have both an Aqua version and an
X11 version (for execution on a remote display)?

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