On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Mark Brethen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I suspect the source does not support 64-bit builds. How do I tweak the >> port to build universal? Is there an example port I could look at? > > > Most ports will "just work", because there's a default +universal variant. > Otherwise look for ports using the muniversal PortGroup, I think. > Unfortunately, for things that don't "just work", the changes needed tend > to be very port-specific; and there's far more ports that just disable > universal builds than tweak it to work, in at least some cases because > untangling the changes needed for universal builds turned out to be too > difficult / not worth the effort. > Also, if a given port will only build 32 bit, there's the supported_archs Portfile keyword (see for example wine, which will probably never work 64 bit because of a register conflict between Windows' and Apple's x86_64 ABIs). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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