Re: Any way to cross compile a port?

2016-03-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 26, 2016, at 1:52 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > > Well, I was asking for anything huge like say pypy or ffmpeg or anything that > takes hours to build. Is there some kind of preferences you can set for > certain ports to request pre-built binaries only? Does

Re: Any way to cross compile a port?

2016-03-26 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
Well, I was asking for anything huge like say pypy or ffmpeg or anything that takes hours to build. Is there some kind of preferences you can set for certain ports to request pre-built binaries only? Does macports automatically detect your build environment and just know which binaries to download

Re: Any way to cross compile a port?

2016-03-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 25, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > I’m just curious if there’s a way to cross compile a port for a different > machine than the current one you’re using, for say compiling something huge > and copying it over to a much slower mac (also running macports) and then > updating

Any way to cross compile a port?

2016-03-25 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
I’m just curious if there’s a way to cross compile a port for a different machine than the current one you’re using, for say compiling something huge and copying it over to a much slower mac (also running macports) and then updating the corresponding portfiles, etc...