On Apr 21, 2011, at 19:16, Blair Zajac wrote: > On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Apr 21, 2011, at 19:08, Blair Zajac wrote: >> >>> On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>>> You also switched from downloading the source and building it, to >>>> downloading and installing a binary. Why this change? MacPorts is a >>>> build-from-source package manager, deviating only when source is not >>>> available or cannot be easily compiled. >>> >>> I agree in general, but for Java packages, I don't see the point in >>> compiling from source, unless we're applying patches. >> >> I didn't realize this was a Java package. > > I'm not saying it is, and I don't think it is (haven't checked), I was > addressing the point about building from source.
I do agree that rebuilding Java software often doesn't help anything. Since Java code is compiled to an architecture-independent bytecode, there's no benefit to recompiling it. premake, however, seems to be normal compiled Mac OS X software, which should please be compiled for the architecture(s) the user requests. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
