[darwinbuild] Selecting arch to build for

Kito kito at gentoo.org
Thu Aug 4 06:59:13 PDT 2005


On Aug 4, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Alastair Rankine wrote:

> (Darwinports newbie, obviously)
>
> So it seems that when you build xnu, it builds a ppc/i386 universal  
> binary. What is the darwinbuild magic to disable this and allow me  
> to build a kernel that will run on my Powerbook G4?

Umm, I'm pretty sure your Powerbook G4 *is* ppc ;) It should boot  
fine assuming it was built properly.

>
> I tried modifying the .build/8C46.plist file to add the following  
> to the xnu definition:
>
>            environment = {
>                RC_ARCHS = "ppc";
>            };
>
> But no dice. What am I missing?

I'm not sure where but you'll need to remove "RC_i386=YES" and change  
RC_ARCHS to "RC_ARCHS=ppc" in the .plist . I would recommend letting  
it build fat, and thinning later as I've had much better luck  
building Darwin projects with a fat, errr, 'universal' toolchain.

>
> Alternatively, how can I turn the universal binary back into a  
> bootable PPC binary? (possibly not a darwinbuild question)

Why do you think universal binaries won't run on ppc? Generally a  
universal(fat) binary is built to run on ppc{64} AND x86.

Anyway, see manpages for lipo(1) and ditto(1) if you really want to  
thin the unneeded archs from your binaries.


--Kito
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