-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/17/11 12:53 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: > 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 >
Going the other way doesn't work, by the way: if you have a 32-bit Fink installation as the primary one in the .profile, sourcing the 64-bit init.sh doesn't work, because of the special things we have to do to make the system Perl work for 32-bit. You may also encounter build problems if you put executables in a globally searchable path, if the package you're building happens to look for and detect those. Another option is just to symlink them into e.g. $HOME/bin, and put that in your local PATH, because Fink doesn't see that at all. Personally, I only source either my 32-bit or my 64-bit Fink installation, but not both in a shell session. I wrote a little shell script that toggles which one is active on login. Unfortunately, there really isn't currently an option to allow for 32-bit builds within a 64-bit Fink tree. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2rQUkACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8oBACggYyrUjDNHwx5Gni5KRkwJJZT iIcAoILec2jw20MHixjLGjQKlto757ci =1wNE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
