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2008.06.07 02:39 "Re: Mac OS X universal binary PowerPC endian issues", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. I use MacPorts [1] to install tiff 3.8.2. There is no problem when > building for only the native architecture. But a ticket was filed in the > MacPorts issue tracker [2] for a problem when a universal binary of tiff is > built using the usual Apple-recommended procedure [3] (configure and build > once using "-arch i386 -arch ppc"). The problem is that the configure-time > macros tiff uses to determine the endianness always detect Intel endianness > in this case, so the PowerPC binaries don't function correctly: I read that autoconf 2.62 includes a fix to address building OS-X universal binaries. I have not researched to see what this fix is. If this is true then the problem may be resolved without any patch. > Finally, a concern was voiced in our ticket that tiff's "make check" didn't > catch this problem. The test suite does not do very much yet. It should do more the next release. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/