On Jan 28, 2011, at 17:08, James Gregurich wrote:
> That would certainly work for MacOSX. What if the host isn't an apple OS?
> There is certainly support for freebsd in darwin ports. I would assume it is
> meant to be generic.
DarwinPorts changed its name to MacPorts years ago to emphasize that the focus
is on the Mac and its Mac OS X operating system -- not Darwin, not other
operating systems. I know MacPorts doesn't compile on Linux anymore. It might
still work on BSD-like systems but I don't know if anybody tests that.
Certainly many ports assume they are being installed on Mac OS X.
I had indeed hoped that the string "apple" would be available in one of the
other ${os} properties, but I could not find it there.
I suppose you could use config.guess... If so, for some reason it seems to me
that you should use one installed by a port, for example libtool provides one.
> for the record, the precise definition of my terms are....
>
> host = system with dev tools that builds the product
> target = system upon which the product executes.
>
>
> BTW. this discussion can be moved to the developer list if that is desired.
Ok, let's do that. Please remove macports-users from the Cc when you reply to
this message.
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