Re: Why did autoconf deps change? Leads to xrender and pango problems?

On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:24 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> Is there any reason why MacPorts / DarwinPorts 1.3.2 can not revert  
> back to
> its state on 1 August 2006? At that time I had no problem building  
> xrender
> (and pango for that matter) on both PowerPC but had not tried at  
> that time
> on Intel hardware. However, earlier in the year I was fooling  
> around with DP
> (I think it was version 1.2.1) on Intel but building to an HFS disc  
> volume.
> The file system does not matter however (as I have proven by  
> building tons
> of ports on UFS on PowerPC hardware).

That UFS works fine for you on PowerPC doesn't mean that it'll work  
fine for you on Intel. :)  File systems have lots of endianness  
concerns, and I think it's safe to say that UFS on Intel has received  
quite a lot less testing than UFS on PowerPC did.  Keep in mind that  
UFS was once a fully supported file system on PowerPC, but it was  
deprecated (as Jordan mentioned) before Mac OS X was released on Intel.

-Eric