[OS X TeX] asy (darwin)

[Justin C. Walker]

On Jun 12, 2010, at 20:39 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

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> On Jun 12, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
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>> And another thing :-}
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>> On Jun 12, 2010, at 20:15 , Justin C. Walker wrote:
>>> On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:20 , Victor Ivrii wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>> BTW, how to compile for both intel _32 and _64?
>>>
>>> There are a couple of ways to get a "universal" app.
>> [snip]
>> What Dick alluded to in his response ("no cross compiling") is  
>> important.  The tips I gave will only build you a command that runs  
>> on a given version of Mac OS X.  If you want to run on multiple  
>> versions (10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6), it gets skankier, and you really  
>> need the help of a trained professional :-}
>
> It's also worth nothing that autoconf-based (./configure) projects  
> are not always compatible with setting CFLAGS to '-arch i386 -arch  
> x86_64 -arch ppc', and this can cause some really subtle bugs.   
> Cross-compiling for multiple architectures and OS releases is really  
> not fun; even using Xcode, you can still have problems with some of  
> the system libraries.

Yeah; that was the "trained professional" part :-}

Justin

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