On Dec 12, 2007, at 12:52, mww@macports.org wrote:

+ post-patch { +# foreach arch {i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64} + foreach arch {i386 ppc} { + file copy ${worksrcpath} ${workpath}/${arch} + } + }

Perhaps we should define this list of universal architectures in MacPorts base itself, so that ports that want to do something for each arch will already have the array ready to go rather than have to define it themselves -- possibly differently from base, which would be inconsistent. Such a definition (let's call it "universal_archs", maybe) should probably go above the definition of configure.universal_args in portconfigure.tcl. The contents of this array should be used to build up a new variable (how about "universal_arch_flags") which ends up looking like "-arch i386 -arch ppc". This string can then be used to build up configure.universal_cflags, configure.universal_cxxflags and configure.universal_ldflags. Anyone agree? Disagree?