RFE: xcode portgroup - add +universal variant

[meissnem@…]

add a +universal varaint to xcode group

[jmpp@…]

Milestone Needs developer review deleted

[nox@…]

The problem of this patch is that it enables universal support... for those xcode projects that build only one arch by default. The majority of ports I've rewritten were building universally by default, and they need to be told to build only one arch if universal is not selected.

Last but not least, there is even xcode projects that don't let us hook in it and set ARCHS, so we would have to play around with CFLAGS and configure.universal_cflags.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

nox, I agree, the patch is not a complete solution, but together with the other work you've done on universal support for xcode-portgroup ports, perhaps a complete solution can be created.

[nox@…]

That's why I just want to finish them to be sure there is no other weird cases ;)
Anyway it will just be a massive search/replace once I've finished and my code hopefully goes in base/.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

What's the status of this? Anything I can do to help?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Paul has committed a more comprehensive patch in r41249. Shall we close this?

[pguyot (Paul Guyot)]

There are three main differences with the new patch:

• universal_variant no still works, and can be applied to all ports that don't support +universal.
• it uses the new universal_* settings in macports.conf. As a consequence, it can build custom combination of universal binaries, such as "i386 x86_64", instead of only doing i386 ppc). It also can build against 10.5 sdk.
• it provides some group support for universal variants for tuning individual ports that may require it.

There are still issues with ports that are built +universal by default or with projects that do not like ARCHS options. But I believe these issues are rather related to individual ports, not to the portgroup which cannot solve all problems anyway.