Architecture mixup

[Phil Dobbin]

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On 17/05/2012 14:08, Watch Dog wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On 17/05/2012 07:25, Ian Wadham wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I think my processor is quad core 64-bit.  It is a 15" Macbook Pro of early 2011 vintage.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Oddly, "arch" says i386 and "machine" says i486.  Shouldn't they say x86_64?
>>>
>>> What is going on?  Why can't I build?  Ideas would be very welcome.
>>
>> Even though the processor on your Mac is 64-bit capable, your OS (i.e.
>> OS X) isn't 64-bit: it's i386.
>>
>> 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

Thanks for pointing that out so charmingly. I neglected to spot the OP
was using Lion: I'm still using Snow Leopard

`Darwin darkstar.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7
16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386`

Cheers,

  Phil...

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