On May 15, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 15, 2013, at 15:38, John Ruschmeyer wrote: > >> I decided to install Virtualbox via MacPorts as opposed to installing the >> binary from Oracle. What has happended, though, is that MacPorts has started >> recompiling dependencies with "+Universal" (currently on glib2). >> >> What I don't understand is why this is necessary, particularly since >> Virtualbox will never run on anything other than an Intel-based system? > > Virtualbox installs a kernel extension. So it needs to build for the same > architecture as your kernel. > > Your Mac is presumably one of the early Intel Macs that uses a 32-bit kernel, > therefore Virtualbox builds itself 32-bit. In order to do that, MacPorts must > first rebuild all of its dependencies universal (32-bit and 64-bit).
buildbot +universal would be nice Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
