Joe Orton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:58:20PM -0000, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> Author: jim >> Date: Tue Oct 13 13:58:19 2009 >> New Revision: 824767 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=824767&view=rev >> Log: >> More Darwin mojo due to 64 and 32 bit multi-arches. The >> deal is we need to install headers that work both when >> installed and used for both 32 and 64 bit builds, ie: >> at compile time. Uses Apple's own apr.h edits as a guide. > > This is nuts, -1. Set a flag in apr_hints.m4 to force the compiler to > pick a single ABI (whichever is the platform default), or fail and make > the user do that. A compiler which is building for two completely > different ABIs simultaneously invalidates the results of the configure > script. You have no way to tell whether any given configure test (now > and in the future) has the same result across both ABIs - you'd have to > check it manually for every single test.
Joe; what you fail to realize is that your definition of 'nuts' is precisely Apple's definition of an ABI (parallel, multiple platform architectures). Not SXS style assemblies, but a single unified binary with multiple states depending on the particular architecture (1 of many) being compiled.
