On Jul 4, 2009, at 11:15 , Rainer Müller wrote:
 *  At a minimum, MacPorts should keep track of processor type
    information for relocatable binaries, libraries, etc.  The
    suite should NOT try to build executables from mixtures of
    PPC and Intel files.

What do you mean by relocatable here? MacPorts ports are not supposed to
be relocatable (as in moved to another path or machine).

I read that as "relocatable" in the object/symbol table sense (which I'm not sure applies to PPC).

    It might be nice to offer the user a choice of building an
    Intel or PPC binary, then using the right input files.  If
    this is too difficult, a simple nastygram would suffice...

MacPorts does not support cross-compilation at the moment. Not for
different architectures and not for different Mac OS X versions. Mixing
architectures is never a good idea.

...but +universal is a variant in many ports?

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