yosemite and 2008/9 macbookpro compatability, macports install settings for older architecture?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 28, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> No; the MacPorts default build_arch is x86_64 on Yosemite, but the user 
>> can override it by changing build_arch to i386 in macports.conf. In this 
>> case, the user probably didn't meant to do that, he just imported a 
>> pre-Snow Leopard Intel MacPorts installation onto his Yosemite Mac, and 
>> should now fully follow the Migration instructions to set things right.
> 
> Hmmm...  I've never touched macports.conf in my life (because I won't know 
> what I'm doing), but I see this:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  5787 Dec  1  2010 macports.conf
> -r--r--r--  1 root  admin  8248 Nov 22  2014 macports.conf.default
> 
> The first would be the original Snow Leopard file, and the second would be 
> Yosemite (with attendant differences in default build architectures).
> 
> Am I in trouble?  I've had no problems with ports.

You should probably migrate any relevant changes from macports.conf.default to macports.conf every time you upgrade MacPorts, as described in the Migration instructions, section 2 a.