Re: MacOS X 10.5.1 and compiling for multiple Architectures

Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to build PG 8.3Beta4 for MacOS Leopard.
> It works fine when using the default i386 architecture. However, this is
> not an option as Apple, in their wisdom, have chosen to build Apache as
> a 64-bit application and their PHP 5.2.4 module without PG support as a
> Intel 32, Intel 64, PPC 32 and PPC 64 type module. For those that don't
> know: Under MacOS, it is possible to build executables that will run
> native on multiple architectures, all contained in a single file - kind
> of weird, and pretty bloated.
>

It was noted a while back that pg had issues with 64 bit on osx - unsure
if it was resolved.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-08/msg01410.php

I do recall some time back there was discussion about getting pg to be
built as a fat binary on osx, but it doesn't seem to have made it into
the source.

one place that may help you for now is
http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Software/2006/02/04/PostgreSQL-Universal-Binary-Build-Tips.html
and
http://www.entropy.ch/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=9579#9579

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