Re: Build fails on OSX using wx 2.7.0

["Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian G. Pflug [mailto:fgp(at)phlo(dot)org] 
> Sent: 31 August 2006 16:00
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Build fails on OSX using wx 2.7.0
> 
> *Putting brown paper bag over my head*. Arg! Forget it, it was not
> g++ that is buggy, it turned out that the biggest bug was sitting
> *in front* of the computer...
> 
> I've "make clean"-ed the wrong sourcetree, so my pgadmin3-trunk tree
> still contained some old object files built against 2.6.3...
> I've now cleaned my tree, and am in the process of recompiling...
> 
> Sorry for the noise and confusion..

Bah - that would have been my normal suggestion but I figured no,
Florian knows what he's doing :-p

> Interesting.. So "universal binaries" actually contain both 
> i386 and ppc
> code in one file? I've always though that universion apps just contain
> two different binaries for both architectures (One in "MacOS", and one
> in "MacOS86" or such...)

Yeah. They can include ppc64 as well. GCC will create them just fine, or
you can build them individually and combine the resulting executables
and libs using the lipo tool.

> > Anyhoo, when I've figured out how to build PostgreSQL, we 
> should be good
> > to go. In the meantime though, I can't believe wx dropped 
> support for
> > Panther. Do the samples build and run OK?
> 
> Hm.. I think that complete-bundle.sh will need some work to "do the 
> right thing" for universal binaries - Or have you already found a
> solution for that?

I haven't fully tested it, but last time I looked it didn't appear to be
much work to tweak for i386 binaries. Hopefully Universal will be
similarly simple.

/D