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From: Grobian <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: [Bug 107759] Gentoo for Mac OSX installer should be updated
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:20:23
Message-Id: 43418D7B.70802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: [Bug 107759] Gentoo for Mac OSX installer should be updated by Kito
1 Kito wrote:
2 > Right, but the libs that are 64-Bit aware should be enough to bootstrap
3 > for a 64-Bit target.
4
5 Agreed.
6
7 >> One way to do it, would be to create a installer with "fat" libraries,
8 >> and set the -arch cflags correctly (specifying multiple ones makes fat
9 >> files) during the bootstrap process. This might not be what an
10 >> advanced user wants, but pretty ok for a regular user.
11 >
12 > I've thought about this a lot, and I always come back with the feeling
13 > that fat (or 'universal' if you like marketing terms) binaries don't
14 > really have a place in portage. Ideally we wouldn't ship anything in an
15 > installer that portage doesn't know how to build itself... which would
16 > mean another keyword (ppc64-macos) and profile (
17 > default-darwin/macos/10.4/{x86,x86_64(?),ppc,ppc64} ).
18
19 I can live with that. In the end I wouldn't want the ppc and i386 stuff
20 on my machine if I don't want to use it.
21
22 >> So last way to do it is just to keep it unofficial. That is for
23 >> example if I put the 64-bits installer on my website, and give no
24 >> support + a lot of warnings. An emerge info then would immediately
25 >> reveal a 64-bits savvy user.
26 >
27 > I guess I don't follow how you would do this in a pkg installer without
28 > having a valid profile and keyword. We have the overlay now, so you
29 > could keep the profile there without polluting mainline tree.
30
31 For the moment, I won't be doing anything on it :) But I still think
32 there is nothing necessary (yet) to do it.
33
34 > All that being said, ppc64/darwin is already an extinct species, despite
35 > the fact it never really got started, so I'm not sure how much work
36 > you'd want to put in to this in the long term...
37
38 "64-bits, because I'm worth it" :p
39 I think this whole idea is not of any interest for the moment. It's
40 much more important that the infrastructure for a 'normal' Portage on
41 OSX gets there. (And if I understood correctly, it's underway.)
42
43 >> well, this is all just dreaming anyway for now.
44 >
45 > And what is life without dreams...
46
47 boring!
48
49
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51 Fabian Groffen
52 Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead
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