On 2009-6-25 04:50, Andre-John Mas wrote: > Hi, > > From what I read (accuracy of information can be disputed) we should > expect Snow Leopard release in the third quater of this year. Taking > this into account, I am curious to know when the general mandate is to > 64-bit compilation and Snow Leopard? For example will all ports be > encouraged to build 64-bit by default on Snow Leopard, or will it be > whatever the port maintainer feels like?
I'm told that the compiler on Snow Leopard generates x86_64 binaries by default. So with the current MacPorts code, that is what you'll get (unless you build universal, or the port adds -arch flags itself). The plan is to add a setting for the default target arch. MacPorts would then attempt to always pass a -arch flag to the compiler (or -m32/-m64 for non-Apple compilers), and individual ports would need to make sure that this is picked up by their build system if the default methods don't suffice. The "sensible default" for this option would appear to be x86_64 on Snow Leopard, and i386 or ppc on earlier OS releases according to the hardware arch. BTW, there is no question about accuracy. Barring large-scale disaster, Snow Leopard *will* ship in September. :-) - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
