how to cross compile?

[Rainer Müller]

On 03/25/2011 08:30 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I am on x86_64 Darwin 10.6. I need to compile smartmontools for PPC
> Darwin 9.
> 
> If I change build_arch to ppc, the build fails presumably because I'm
> on Snow Leopard which doesn't support ppc. But I don't see an option
> in macports.conf to tell it to build for another platform.
> 
> Suggestions?

You could try to set macosx_deployment_target in macports.conf which
will use the appropriate SDK if it does not match the current system.

But be aware that this is an unsupported option. Actually I never tried
it myself.

Rainer