On 11/09/2009 11:38 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:19:14AM -0600, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>>> On 11/09/2009 03:11 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10.6/64bit, the 'Update' fields could have a renewed interest,
>>>> because many packages have config.guess versions that guess wrong. In
>>>> fact, does there even exist a config.guess that gives the right answer
>>>> "x84_64-apple-darwin10"? Apple's own version in
>>>> /usr/share/libtool/config/ doesn't.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The config project committed some variation of Jack's patch a while ago,
>>> the config.guess that reports x86_64-apple-darwin<version> on 64 bit
>>> intel mac systems has probably made it into a few released projects
>>> by now.
>>
>> Any word on when an automake release will have it?

Whenever the next automake release is :) I know Ralf (automake 
maintainer) is presently busy updating all the auto* in gcc and src for 
gcc-4.5 etc. So I doubt it will be that soon.

>
> Does this new version work properly when we are trying to compile on
> 10.6/32bit? Or does it cause libtool to think that all of the included
> libs are supposed to be 64bit, since that is what config.guess reported?

config.guess reports x86_64-apple-darwin on 10.6 intel, or if CC='gcc 
-arch x86_64' CC='gcc -m64' etc. i386 on intel macs otherwise.

Upstream libtool uses pass_all for dep libs check method, so it will 
just give whatever it sees to ld (which will then complain if the arch 
is wrong). I don't see any problem using the new config.guess in new 
packages, but blindly using it for older packages has the potential to 
cause problems.

This is the problem fink now has with its Update* fields. Updating the 
files that will be copied may fix some things, but may break others.

Peter
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Peter O'Gorman
http://pogma.com

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