Universal Binaries

[Harry van der Wolf]

2009/1/26 Vincent Lefevre <vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org>

> 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)?
>

No. That's not possible in one macports tree. Libraries and binaries need to
be compiled either for X11 or for Aqua.

If you are adventurous you can off course create/install the default tree in
/opt/local and compile macports by hand and set the prefix and so on to (for
example) /aqua/local.
It will be a complicated setup as you also have to be very careful about
PATH settings and so on, but I have used it a short while when moving from
X11 to Aqua for avidemux (but it is very error prone).

Harry
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