[tex-live] use of x86_64-darwin only in mactex 2010

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 16:26:54 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Ralph Martin
<Ralph.Martin at cs.cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:
> Why are there separate universal and 64 bit binaries, anyway? Surely the "right" way to do this is to produce 3-way binaries with ppc, i386, and x86_64 all in the same file, not some 2 way binaries and a separate lot of 64 bit binaries. That's the whole point of this universal thing - to stop users having to worry about it.
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> Best wishes
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> Ralph
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I wonder what means "right way in UK" :-)

Could not resist temptation.

Victor


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