[tex-live] use of x86_64-darwin only in mactex 2010
Adam R. Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Sun Jun 20 20:58:56 CEST 2010
On Jun 20, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>
> On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:54 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>>
>>> One can complain a bit that MacTeX installs x86_64-darwin binaries on
>>> SL even if it is not 64-bit machine capable (as my intel
>>> pre-Core-Duo-2 MacBookPro)
>>
>> One /should/ complain about that. I'm copying the mactex list to make
>> sure that Dick sees this, since I thought he was going to check
>> hardware compatibility.
Dick noted on the mactex list (too many lists here!) that he checks the
architecture before setting up the TeX distribution hierarchy, so even
though the x86_64 binaries are installed, the user won't see them in the
system preference pane. They are present on all architectures, even
ppc. Sorry for the misunderstanding there...
> I don't want to make too much of this, but there are a couple of issues to consider:
>
> - it may provide a (slight) savings of space to full universal binaries (ppc, i386, x86_64) full universal binaries (ppc, i386, x86_64). Maybe default is to install the universal binaries, with an option to select a specific architecture ("lipo" can thin them down). Once it's figured out, it's just a push of a button :-}
The problem is that the x86_64 binaries won't run on 10.5, so lipoing
them into a single 3-way universal binary won't work, since there's no
way to force x86_64 to only run on 10.6 (the system will check
LSMinimumSystemVersionByArchitecture, but that would be madness).
> - some folk may have a bootable drive that they use on multiple systems. Having "64-bit only" being the only option will screw that up.
I don't believe there are any circs under which it will be 64-bit only.
All possible architectures are always installed under MacTeX.
--
Adam
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