Binary builds???

Dominik Reichardt domiman at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 10:02:53 PST 2011


On 19.11.2011, at 18:42, Marko Käning wrote:

>> No, it means there *aren't* any, because the few ports that have that capability in their source aren't anywhere near enough to bother with the additional complexity of trying to support it in the buildbot.
> OK, now you successfully annihilated my last bit of hope. ;-)

When you think of how dynamic linking of binaries with libraries and other stuff is done, it is clear that MacPorts could never provide precompiled binaries for a custom prefix. Unless, of course, everything were built static which poses much more problems on OS X :)

Dom
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