Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 31/8/06 16:17, "Chris Campbell" <chris@bignerdranch.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2006, at 11:00, Dave Page wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah. They can include ppc64 as well. GCC will create them just
>>>> fine, or
>>>> you can build them individually and combine the resulting executables
>>>> and libs using the lipo tool.
>>> That's how I build my Universal PostgreSQL binaries (and any other
>>> configure-based project). I "./configure && make && make install" on
>>> both a PowerPC Mac and an Intel Mac (because configure looks at the
>>> host system to make decisions), then lipo the results together
>>> (that's how Xcode does it, BTW). It's worked beautifully thus far,
>>> but it does require two machines.
>>
>> Yeah, that's the downside - and until I find another generous sponsor for
>> the project we're stuck!!
>
> I just played around a bit on my laptop running 10.4, and was able to
> compile a universal version of libpq, pg_dum and pg_config.
> What I did was:
>
> 1) export CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc -isysroot
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/"
> 2) export LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc -isysroot
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/"
> 3) ./configure
> 4) cd src/interfaces/libpq; make
> 5) cd src/backend; make ../../src/include/parser/parse.h
> 6) src/bin/pg_config; make
> 7) src/bin/pg_dump; make
>
> The only problem I can see is that ld isn't able to generate universal
> binaries - it
> can read them, but always strips all but one arch when generating output...
> The apple gcc, however supports multiple archs just fine, and even knows
> that it
> has to call ld repeatedly, and then merge the resuting files...
> So, to build a complete postgres distribution, I believe one would have
> to somehow tell
> configure to use gcc instead ld (if it doesn't already do that).
>
> But for building pgadmin3, the parts I built above are sufficient - in
> fact, those
> are exactly the parts of postgres that my buildaemon-postgres-update
> script builds ;-)
> (Don't ask me why step (5) is necessary... It was quite a long time ago
> that I wrote
> this script... ;-) ).
Clicked send a bit too fast - what I forgot to mention was that I'm use XCode
2.4 on my laptop
greetings, Florian Pflug
