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Re: Support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard



On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 09:08:21PM -0700, Min Sik Kim wrote:
> Even with a 32-bit kernel, Snow Leopard is still capable of running
> 64-bit applications, and in fact all the (universal) binaries have
> 64-bit versions in them.

I know that. But all Intel Macs execute them? Some of them use
Core Duo (not Core *2* Duo) CPU which IIRC don't support
64 bit mode.

> IMO, pkgsrc should follow the system default: building x86_64 binaries.

That would require to deal with the "MACHINE_ARCH" problem it some way.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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