Re: [Fink-devel] Re: ppc unix binaries on Macintel?

[Chris Z. <be...@ma...>]

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On Feb 28, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Chris,
>     I've asked around on the darwin x11 mailing list and so far
> the answers suggest the worst. From what I have heard so far, the
> X11.app for Macintel doesn't provide a mechanism to transparently
> provide the ppc X11 libraries to ppc X11 executables so they don't
> run. So it appears that everything for X11 will have to be rebuilt
> as intel binaries. This is really unfortunate as it will likely take
> several years to completely repopulate all the scientific versions
> of X11 applications with Universal versions. Also its unclear how
> difficult it will be to built Universal versions with typical  
> makefiles
> (since few scientific applications bother to use the Xcode build
> system).

Well, for the opensource versions, I'd imagine they'd do the same as  
every other unix arch, have a ppc build and an intel build. Too easy.

- -chris zubrzycki
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