site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Cyrus _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... It's also rumored that software that expects to handle Unix signals gets bogus signal contexts under Rosetta, so if your software expects to setup signal handlers and get access to registers and what not from a signal context this won't work. Not that this has anything to do with X11, of course. On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote: As was pointed out earlier, it is trivial to compile UNIX libraries and command-line tools as Universal, so everything "should" work. If it is open source, the best solution is to simply compile it Universal (or at least Intel-native). Unless it has a really hairy build system (e.g., like KDE or OpenOffice), it shouldn't be that hard. ;If you get stuck, ask here if its X11, or on unix-porting If it is not open source, first check to make sure you know that it runs properly on PowerPC machines. Pretty much the only common software that won't run under Rosetta are a) emultators (e.g., Virtual PC) and JNI-bridged hybrid Java apps (e.g., NeoOffice) -- pure Java, of course, runs fine unless it explicitly requires JDK 1.3. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com