For reasons that are too silly to repeat, I am now sitting on a clean 10.6
updated install, with a new MacPorts, and zero ports installed. I will be
installing all my ports new and clean.
In macports.conf I see:
# CPU architecture to compile for. Defaults to i386 or ppc on Mac OS X 10.5
# and earlier, depending on the CPU type detected at runtime. On Mac OS X
10.6
# the default is x86_64 if the CPU supports it, i386 otherwise.
#build_arch i386
And also:
# Options for Universal Binaries (+universal variant)
# machine architectures
universal_archs x86_64 i386
This is a MacBook that I use for development, 1.83 Intel Core 2 Duo
I am thinking I want to build UB for everything. This just seems better in the
long run. I will run into the problems of some ports not being able to support
it, and can work to solve those problems, or file tickets to get them solved.
Is this a good or bad idea?
Would I just delete the i386 string from the "universal_archs"?
I add +universal to most oft the ports I installed in the past, which sometimes
got me into trouble, as for example, with php5-mcrypt, I had to also rebuild
the entire chain that it was dependent on.
Where do I define that I need not remember to add +universal, and it will be
the default, and is that even a good idea?
Why is "build_arch" commented out in the conf above?
Looking for suggestions on the pros and cons. I am also fine with just leaving
things are they are, but it is my understanding that means my builds are only
good for this machine or very similar machines.
I am still at a loss, for example, with my memteter Portfile, which does not
have a +universal variant. What would happen under an install of that port,
where I add +univeral? I assume it will just ignore that and build it for this
architecture.
But then I look at `port info mtr` and see it has:
Variants: darwin_10, universal
But looking at the Portfile, these are the only things I see different to me:
configure.args-append --without-gtk
platform darwin 10 {
configure.env-append LIBS=-lresolv
}
Is that all I have to do, is add in some appended args and will get universal?
I suspect I need to go back to the source, and read through it and see what it
takes to build memtester out universal, but I am still at a loss as to what is
generating the "Variants: darwin_10, universal" line.
Thanks
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