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Re: Universal build of cranky open source lib with a configure script

On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:57 PM, John Daniel wrote:
alias uconfigure='env CFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/ MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc" ./configure --disable- dependency-tracking'
alias umake='env CFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk - arch i386 -arch ppc" make'

I do a uconfigure and then a umake. If it doesn't work perfectly, it gets me really close.

You may need to update your config script using a recent version of autoconf, automake, and libtool. 

Don't do this.

Doing the above with autoconf based source will not yield a correctly working universal binary.

There are two issues at hand; cross compilation and simultaneously compiling for two architectures (as per the above recommendation).

Autoconf can support cross compilation, but most projects that use autoconf do not support cross architecture compilation. Good projects that don't will actually spew an error and refuse to configure when targeting something other than the local host's architecture. Bad projects will merrily configure "correctly" and then suck up various architecture specific configuration parameters from the local system's architecture.

The real problem is that passing "-arch i386 -arch ppc" completely bypasses the per-architecture configuration features of autoconf.

Autoconf works by testing a bunch of crap on the system, often by compiling little bits of test code to see if various functions, features or bugs are present. The results of all these tests are typically quantified in a bunch of variables and #ifdefs spread across makefiles and header files.

By specifying '-arch i386 -arch ppc', you are effectively telling the project to build for two different architectures where both should use all the configuration from whatever architecture the files happened to be compiled on!

The end result will be incorrect. The resulting problems may be obvious or, more likely, they might be incredibly subtle. Depending on how you are using the compiled product, you might get really lucky and have something that seems like it works.

b.bum
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 >RE: Universal build of cranky open source lib with a	configure	script (From: "Syd Polk" <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Universal build of cranky open source lib with a	configure	script (From: Shamyl Zakariya <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Universal build of cranky open source lib with a	configure	script (From: John Daniel <email@hidden>)























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