Re: MetaPost 1.004 announcement

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>  >
>  > 1. general architecture specification: CFLAGS -arch ppc      (for
>  > powerpc) CFLAGS -arch ppc64    (for the new 64bit binaries on
>  > powerpc) CFLAGS -arch i386     (for intel) I did not check the ppc64
>  > (not needed) and i386 (not having one) options.
>  >
>  > 2. more specific architecture specification affecting instruction set
>  > and scheduling if one wants to tune the generated code to ones
>  > processor: CFLAGS -mcpu=G4 (-mcpu=G5 etc. whichever ones machine has)
>  >
>  >
>  > It would be most natural, I think, if the -arch switch is added
>  > standard through the autoconf scripts. Taco could see to that for
>  > metapost and luatex, I trust. Can someone mail this experience to the
>  > maintainers of pdftex? (I could not ascertain why pdftex compiles
>  > without problems).

I might be missing the point, but I would be glad if -arch would not
be set automatically if there is some better solution. Now it's really
easy to cross-compile metapost, pdfTeX and LuaTeX for ppc on intel. If
configure script would set the -arch unconditionally, then I would
probably run into problems. But again - I might be misunderstanding
the problem.

Mojca
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