On 12/02/2008, Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > DJamé Seddah wrote: > > | Thanks for you long answer but I wonder how come it seems more > | feasible in the macport project ? > | http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ > | FAQ#IsMacPortsUniversal > | I know that it's not possible for every package (especially for those > | who need to be bootstraped, in that case UB means basically cross > | compilation+emulation (doable on mactel not on ppc except by the mean > | of qemu so very unlikely to work flawlessly) but I would have loved > | to have a magic option :) > > Well, it's likely they can do the same percentage I said in my e-mail. :) > > I'm not saying it's impossible, only difficult to do right.
And as they do not use dpkg their system might be easier to hack to support universal binaries than fink :) But still compiling something like ghc as universal binary might get quite interesting. Plus fixing up all the endianess checks in the stuff that works on both platforms but requires binary communication with the outside world.. Thanks Michal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
