Re: Getting to universal binaries for Darwin

Tom Lane wrote:
> The bad news is that if you only do that, only the arch that you
> actually build on will work. We have configure set up to insert
> various hardware-dependent definitions into pg_config.h and
> ecpg_config.h, and if you don't have the right values visible for
> each compilation, the resulting executables will fail.
>
> You can get around that by hacking up the generated config files
> with #ifdef __i386__ and so on to expose the correct values of
> the hardware-dependent symbols to each build. Of course you have
> to know what the correct values are --- if you don't have a sample
> of each architecture handy to run configure against, it'd be easy
> to miss some things. And even then it's pretty tedious. I am
> not sure if it is possible or worth the trouble to try to automate
> this part better.

It may be less pain to simply config and build for ppc and i386 in separate build directories and
then glue the resulting binaries together with lipo
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/lipo.1.html> to make them
"universal".

Regards,

Adriaan van Os