Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
- From: Dmitry Markman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:04:19 -0400
that's actually exactly the problem for gcc 4.4.1
because config.guess doesn't guess correctly :-)
it returns i386-apple-darwin10.0.0
and configure fails miserably unless I provide host, build and target
arguments explicitly as x86_64-apple-darwin10.0.0
On Aug 30, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:26, Brian
Bechtel<email@hidden> wrote:
Arch and uname -p both return the processor family type, i386. (as
opposed
to ppc or arm.) I think the rationale was that too many scripts
depend upon
this behavior.
This actually doesn’t make a huge amount of sense: something like
config.guess will return 'i386-apple-darwin10.0.1', despite the fact
that gcc will be (by default) targeting x86_64; anything which relies
on the knowledge that "i386" is by default entirely 32-bit will
therefore break. In contrast, most other x86_64 systems tend to be set
up such that x86_64 is reported as the “system” architecture (where
the kernel architecture is pretty incidental), and so you have a
triplet of, say, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
I’d be curious to know what would break if uname returned the
user-space architecture (as targeted by the system compiler by
default) rather than the kernel architecture.
M.
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Dmitry Markman
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