On 2010-6-6 14:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Again, the machine *does* support the notion of universal binaries; all Macs 
> running 10.4 or later do. It may not, however, necessarily support compiling, 
> for example in your case, 64-bit software on a 32-bit machine. You could set 
> universal_archs to "ppc i386" (instead of the Snow Leopard default of "x86_64 
> i386") and it should be able to do that.

You can compile for x86_64 on an i386 machine (or for i386 on a ppc
machine) just fine. You only get problems if the build system wants to
run something that it just compiled, and you're building for a single
arch that the build machine can't run. This is one of the drawbacks of
using muniversal.

- Josh
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