Does gcc45 support -arch?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 17, 2011, at 00:30, Peng Yu wrote:

>> -arch is part of Apple's private patches to support multiple-architecture
>> objects and binaries, and is only supported by Apple's Xcode compilers.
> 
> Whenever, I try to install a number of third packages, -arch is
> somehow supplied to gcc/g++ (I have to going back to the original mac
> compiler, which is inconvenient). I'm wondering whether there is a
> walkaround to change -arch to the GCC equivalent? I checked my env,
> but I don't see how -arch is passed to gcc/g++. Is there a
> configuration file that I can change?

Outside of MacPorts (and even within MacPorts, when you've selected a non-Apple compiler using `configure.compiler`), `-arch` is not passed to the compiler by default. Either the specific third-party software you're trying to build is doing so deliberately (if this is the case, patch that software to not do that); or it's making use of dependencies whose *-config scripts or pkg-config *.pc files inadvertently contain `-arch` flags (if this is the case, and those dependencies were installed with MacPorts, please file a bug report with us and reference wiki:PortfileRecipes#archflags); or you're specifying the `-arch` flags yourself in CC, CXX, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS, or similar.

If you still cannot figure out where the `-arch` flags are coming from, show us a complete log of the output of running `configure` and `make`. The config.log may be helpful too.