Wine error message
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Nov 8 23:44:22 PST 2009
On Nov 6, 2009, at 19:15, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
> I realize that wine is a Mactel only program; but, the error message:
>
> Error: wine can only be used on an Intel Mac or other computer with
> a little-endian processor.
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: incompatible processor
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> is misleading with the "or other computer with a little-endian
> processor" since a PowerPC could run as both big-endian and little-
> endian.
I had no idea that was the case. Where can I read more about that?
I didn't want to just say "Intel Mac", since MacPorts theoretically
runs on non-Macs as well, many of which will be x86-based and thus
should be able to use wine.
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