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For the last couple of years there have been different CPUs for Macs. First we had the G4, then the G5, followed by the switch to Intel. And even for the Intels
by jvdh 17y ago
For the last couple of years there have been different CPUs for Macs. First we had the G4, then the G5, followed by the switch to Intel. And even for the Intels there's lots of different subtypes.
And of course now with the switch to Snow Leopard we've got the 64-bit issue as well.
Yes, it does take a while, but these days it doesn't take that long anymore.
- jcromartie 17y agoYeah, but as of right now you could basically call it PPC/Intel, and most users are probably running Intel. Binaries (universal or not) are good enough for every single application distributed for the Mac platform. Why would command-line tools or libraries need to be any different?
- blasdel 17y agoThe majority of these packages link against non-system libraries, and the ones that don't are there to be linked against by other packages. OS X is unique among modern unixes in that absolutely nobody distributes app bundles that have external dependencies on non-system libraries (except for a few that are too freetarded to bundle ffmpeg).