Re: Problems Building NSS on Mac OS X 10.6 (64-bit)

2011-03-27 Thread Bayard Bell
I was looking at how this might be rolled in as something like a pseudo-architecture (e.g. darwin-universal-x86+x64+ppc64) to roll in the various flags for different universal targets, and I think there may be some significant side-effects. I haven't dug in to compare how it changes the operati

Re: Darwin universal builds and related Makefile miscellania

2011-03-27 Thread Bayard Bell
The short answer is that worrying about changes to changes to the installer vs. the runtime is like the difference between a booster rocket and the command module in the Apollo missions: the former is discarded after getting you off the ground, whereas the latter has to get three people safely t

Re: Darwin universal builds and related Makefile miscellania

2011-03-27 Thread Kaspar Brand
On 26.3.11 13:13, Bayard Bell wrote: > I don't see what's so preferable about marginally optimising the > mechanics of this on OS X if it looks to make far more fundamental > changes in the code and the build process that do not fundamentally > jibe with their apparent design philosophy. Why would

Re: Problems Building NSS on Mac OS X 10.6 (64-bit)

2011-03-27 Thread Kaspar Brand
On 22.1.11 13:58, Kaspar Brand wrote: > On 20.1.11 20:57, Robert Relyea wrote: >> If you have the proper changes to coreconf to produce 32 bits on a Mac >> 64 bit system, we would certainly be interested. > > I think something like the attached patches (not only for NSS, but also > for NSPR) shou