Architecture mixup

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu May 17 13:10:07 PDT 2012


On May 17, 2012, at 09:20, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> 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`

Snow Leopard is also a 64-bit OS. So is Leopard. So are parts of Tiger.

The *kernel* your machine runs (which is what uname tells you about) might still be 32-bit, but that in no way impedes your ability to run 64-bit software.



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