After building the universal gcc48 and compiling for the i386 target, I was 
disappointed to see that the library didn't work on an older MacBook I had 
lying around :-(

I think I'll abandon support for anything other than 64 bit OS X.

-- 
Sam

On 25 Aug 2013, at 18:22, Sam Halliday <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, thanks.
> 
> In that case I'll abandon the idea of supporting PPC. It sounds like there 
> would be too much tweaking of mac ports above and beyond the SO instructions 
> for obtaining a PPC SDK.
> 
> Btw, I don't really care about LIPO. I would be happy with four binaries of 
> my project.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sam Halliday
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 25 Aug 2013, at 16:33, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 25, 2013, at 4:21, Samuel Halliday <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks all,
>>> 
>>> In order to build a ppc gfortran app, I need the Xcode 3 PPC compiler (I 
>>> think that's what a lot of these comments have been about). There is a SO 
>>> thread about how to do this:
>>> 
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5333490
>>> 
>>> But once I have my universal gcc48 (not apple-gcc*), it would appear that 
>>> the -arch flags must be passed one at a time. BTW, it seems the default 
>>> gcc48 can build 32 bit fortran apps (even though it's a x86_64 build) but 
>>> can't link them (hence the need for "gcc48 +universal").
>>> 
>>> Before I embark on the insane mission of obtaining xcode3 ppc compilers, 
>>> can somebody confirm for me if the "gcc48 +universal" (with universal 
>>> including ppc) will be able to compile ppc binaries using "-arch ppc"?
>> 
>> No, it won't.  +universal in the gcc ports means i386/x86_64 or ppc/ppc64:
>> 
>> platform powerpc {
>>   configure.universal_archs ppc ppc64
>> }
>> platform i386 {
>>   configure.universal_archs i386 x86_64
>> }
>> 
>> If you want to fix that, you'll need to bring the Apple gcc driver driver 
>> into the gccXX ports and update those ports to build once for ppc and then 
>> again for i386 ... see the apple-gcc42 port for how this is done as well as 
>> the driver driver source code.
>> 
>>> * one could edit 
>>> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/lang/apple-gcc42/Portfile to 
>>> include the fortran language, but I'd rather not get into customising 
>>> portfiles. Besides, I thought apple used LLVM nowadays.
>> 
>> You're not going to solve this without either:
>> 1) Moving to Snow Leopard or earlier (so you can have a MacPorts ppc 
>> runtime, so you can have a gfortran compiler that produces ppc code)
>> 2) Making a darwin-ppc cross compiler (again, not in MacPorts, but our 
>> assembler (cctools) and linker (ld64) should work for you)
>> 3) Adding fortran support to apple-gcc42 (and using the 10.5 or 10.4u SDK)
>> 4) Adding support for generating ppc code with the gccXX ports when running 
>> on intel
>> 
>> You're going to need to change around Portfiles or do a lot by hand to solve 
>> this problem.
>> 
>> Alternatively, you could have a SL or Leopard machine do the ppc bits and a 
>> ML machine do the i386/x86_64 bits.  Then just lipo them all together into 
>> the final executable.  This is essentially how I build the host support 
>> library that is shipped with quartz-wm.
>> 
>> --Jeremy
>> 

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