On Friday May 13 2016 05:00:21 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I'm not giving that any thought. MacPorts is about installing software on OS > X.
You mean it really should be renamed to OSXPorts? ^^ > MacPorts developers and maintainers do not have expertise about installing > software on Linux. I have a hunch more of them might resent that statement than you seem to think ... > There are other package managers that can be used to install software on > Linux. I've been finding it very useful to use the same ports to install the same software on my various systems at home. It also makes it a lot easier to test patches on the "main OS" before submitting them to upstream. > If someone knows how to determine if a Linux machine is 64-bit or 32-bit, > yes, that knowledge could be put into that file. uname -p (processor) or uname -i (hardware platform) should do the trick (on 64-bit; I don't have a 32-bit system ATM, not even a VM). Doesn't Tcl have the equivalent of sizeof(void*) or sizeof(size_t)? R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
