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Re: fat binaries



On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 04:17:20PM +1100, Gregory McGarry wrote:
> I really like the concept of the mach fat binaries and have always  
> thought that NetBSD could benefit from their use more than any other  
> operating system.

I dislike the concept and from what I have seen on Mac OS/X, it brings a
lot of maintainance issues as well. For example, some libraries used by
the older bootstrap only existed for Intel and 32bit PPC at the time --
poff, fat binary building is broken.

Joerg


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