Toby Peterson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Bryan Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Currently there are only a few ports with 64bit variants: >> >> nbench-byte +use_64_bit >> ubench +use_64_bit >> judy +bit64 >> john-devel +use_64_bit >> >> (john-devel was updated with 64bit support by me, picking the more common >> name). >> >> Before there are many more ports with such variants, we need to decide on a >> standard name; I found that +64bit isn't liked by port as it thinks that is >> the name of a port, not a variant so I guess it doesn't like a variant name >> to start with a number. >> >> The only issue I have with +use_64_bit is it's long and a pain to type... > > Seems like a rather inappropriate use of variants in the first place. > 64bit-related build foo should simply be applied if the port is being > built 64bit (via universal_archs or other method).
Right, the reason I added those variants to nbench-byte and ubench was simply so they could be built 64-bit with MP 1.6. With 1.7, it seems like universal_archs and configure.m64 should take care of the issue between them. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
