choosing SDK for macports

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-4-28 05:58 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:10, Dominik Reichardt wrote:
> 
>> in the process of building static binaries of our project (Exult), I hit the problem that on 10.5 my attempt to built the 10.4 PPC part always hit the "Symbol not found: _pthread_cond_init$UNIX2003" referenced from SDL (and other similar messages) on final linlking.
>>
>> I found out that this happens because SDL's PPC part was not compiled against the 10.4 SDK. After more googling I found that adding 
>> universal_sysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
>> universal_target 10.4
>>
>> to macports.conf should take care of this. I tried that, built everything anew and still got the problem.
>>
>> I WAS able to build a static PPC binary by manually building SDL with their fatbuild.sh script and linking to that lib.
>>
>> I would still like to be able to use the macports installed SDL and am looking for what I'm doing wrong when trying to choose a SDK for macports.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I did wrong, or was that functionality never really working?
> 
> 
> Sorry, the ability to build for a different SDK is no longer available as of MacPorts 1.8.0. It was not implemented in a very good way. Joshua has just begun committing new code to trunk to re-add this functionality in a better way. Hopefully this will appear in MacPorts 1.9.0.

You can easily add the appropriate flags in a local copy of the port.
Cross-compiling will probably never be a supported configuration BTW.

- Josh