Re: Makefile support for Mac OS X Fat Binaries?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:

>
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
>> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
>>> would the community accept a patch that would allow the making of 4-way fat
>>> binaries on Mac OS X 10.5+? (Obviously for 8.4+).
>>
>> Depends on how big and ugly it is, I think. If you can do it just by
>> hacking CFLAGS and friends, sure; if it's as invasive as the Windows
>> build machinery, definitely not; in between, we'd have to see it.
>
> We've been through this once already. You can't do it (cleanly) with just
> Makefile hackery. The architectures have different endianness and possibly
> other ABI differences. To handle that cleanly you have to run configure once
> for each architecture and build each architecture with the appropriate
> config.h.
>
Could we then combine the executables into one 4-way fat binary ?

I'll see what I come up with.

>

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