cmake universal?

Eric Gallager egall at gwmail.gwu.edu
Tue Jul 8 09:41:37 PDT 2014


Wine has to be 32-bit on OS X because of some ABI differences regarding
register reservation in 64-bit. See the following discussion thread on
wine-devel explaining why:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2014-February/103074.html



On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 8:04 AM, "René J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Jul 03, 2014, at 13:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:45 AM, "René J.V. Bertin" wrote:
> >> Quick question: I have the universal cmake variant installed, and I
> fail to see the interest of that. Is there any way it could have been
> installed because another universal variant's build dependencies?
> >
> > That's quite possible.
>
> Is there a way to check which port(s) depend on a given variant of another
> port?
> >
> > Maybe we should add
> >    depends_skip_archcheck-append cmake
> > or something similar to the CMake PortGroup?
>
> [OT]
> Also, about universal variants being pulled in (and what I think I'm
> observing actually on the binary package mirrors): lots of my universal
> ports were pulled in when I installed wine. I don't know the exact status
> of Wine64, but last time I checked it was still safer (in terms of
> compatibility) to use the 32bit wine version. I hope prebuilt universal
> ports aren't being discontinued for OS X 10.9 too quickly, under the
> assumption that no one is still running 32bit CPUs ...
> [/OT]
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