On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:40:08PM +1000, Ian Schorr wrote:
> Not to go too off-topic, but I've been meaning to ask. Do you know
> what the reason for this is? Is it just lack of PPC equipment where
> the build systems are? Or some other reason?
As you may already know, either a PPC or an Intel machine can generate
universal binaries that work on both PPC and Intel. One of the reasons
we're not generating universal binaries is that some of our supporting
libraries (such as GLib IIRC) do byte order checks when compiling, so
the byte order would be hard coded according to the type of system
compiling the universal binary (recall that PPC is big-endian and Intel
is little-endian). This is something worth looking into further since
it's not nice to leave PPC users behind so soon after the switch to
Intel CPUs ;).
Steve
