Hi, At 19:47 -0700 on 2011-4-16 Richard Miles wrote: > > Is it possible to set up fink so that it builds 32 bit programs as > 32 bit and 64 bit programs as 64 bit.
I am doing so with mplayer and firefox (pdftk used to be another one until recently). What I have is two instances of fink, one 64-bit (which hosts most of the stuff) and the other 32-bit (which only holds mplayer, firefox, and their dependencies). I then have symlinks for appropriate applications (mplayer, mencoder, and firefox in my case) in a suitable directory already in the search path (such as /usr/local/bin). To manage the 32-bit version I source the 32-bit init.sh manually in a terminal, whereas the 64-bit init.sh is sourced everywhere by my .profile. The downside is disk space, as some things (said dependencies) need to be replicated. This is not that much though, with sources shared (and thus excluded) I have about 760M in the 32-bit fink directory. I am not sure if this is the best way to accomplish things but it has been working well for me for ages. Stefan -- If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass No HTML emails and proprietary attachments please <http://bruda.ca/email.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
