Second on the "buildbot + universal" suggestion. That was my big disappointment with building Virtualbox- now almost every package has going to have to be built from source, rather than installed from binary from now on.
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <[email protected]>wrote: > 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) > >
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