Architecture mixup

[Watch Dog]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 17/05/2012 07:25, Ian Wadham wrote:
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>> This is not strictly a Macports question, but my problem might be
>> due to a Macports upgrade so someone here might be able to help.
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>> I think my processor is quad core 64-bit.  It is a 15" Macbook Pro of early 2011 vintage.
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>> It is described by "About This Mac" as "2 GHz Intel Core i7".  My software is:
>>     Mac OS X 10.7.4 Lion
>>     XCode 4.2.1
>>     Macports 2.0.4
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>> Oddly, "arch" says i386 and "machine" says i486.  Shouldn't they say x86_64?
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>> What is going on?  Why can't I build?  Ideas would be very welcome.
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> Even though the processor on your Mac is 64-bit capable, your OS (i.e.
> OS X) isn't 64-bit: it's i386.
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> Don't know whether that helps at all...

Not at all...  Pure BS.

cd /
file mach_kernel
mach_kernel: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
mach_kernel (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
mach_kernel (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386
mach_kernel (for architecture ppc):	Mach-O executable ppc