Re: Delay in MacPorts packaging

On 20.12.2009, at 20.32, Dave Page wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa(at)wahlstedt(dot)fi> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm in the process of packaging pgAdmin 1.10.1 for OS X MacPorts. The status
>> is this:
>> - wxWidgets 2.8.9 is in use (due to dependencies: wxPython has its own build
>> of 2.8.10 not compatible with the wxWidgets stable release, which is not
>> quite sane IMHO, but anyway...)
>> - wxWidgets must be built 32-bit on 10.6 (it relies on Carbon API in 2.8, no
>> 64-bit support for that, 2.9-level is not ready yet)
>> - hence pgAdmin must be built 32-bit
>> - hence PostgreSQL must be built universal (or 32-bit)
>> - however, compiling PostgreSQL (at least 8.4) in 32-bit mode (64-bit is ok)
>> leads to an error situation that is not solved yet. I've reported that
>> upstream, but I don't have any patch yet. I've had no time to explore that
>> in depth, but if I find the culprit, I'll proceed.
>
> Is it actually the 32 bit build that's failing, or a universal build
> that includes 32 bit? I have a non-universal 32bit build that works
> fine, but using multiple arch flags seems to fail. Not sure why yet -
> haven't had the cycles to investigate.
>
Probably the latter, but in a 64-bit system one wants that included:) But this should be fixable, I just don't know, how long it takes. This should be a fairly isolated thing, so even I could maybe find it...
>
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