Re: [xml] Intel Mac supported?

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

David Gatwood wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2006, Steve Ball <Steve Ball explain com au> wrote:
>
> > I haven't yet built the frameworks as Universal Binaries, but I'm not
> > anticipating any difficulty there.  I've seen plenty of discussion
> > and doco on how to do this.  Since I do not have an Intel Mac, there
> > hasn't been any motivation to change the build process (btw,
> > donations to the "buy Steve a Mac Book Pro so he'll build Universal
> > Binaries" fund will be gratefully accepted ;-)
>
>
> Since Apple ships libxml2 preinstalled, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet
> that somebody has built it universal.  :-)

Doh! Of course.

> Actually, more to to the point, I'm certain of it, since I maintain some
> command-line XML tools and I've built and run them on Intel-based
> Mac OS X, so I'm certain that they've built it universal.  I don't know
> what mechanism they used, though---probably the build-separately-
> and-glue-together method, which is less than ideal in terms of
> build time (since it requires multiple passes across the tree), but
> the same time, always works.
>
> Anyway, here's what you should expect:
<snip>

Thanks David, I will save this email for reference when the time comes. 
It's always helpful to hear the voice of experience in these things.


Regards,
Rush