[tex-live] 64-bit OS X
Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Wed May 26 12:09:16 CEST 2010
Hello,
I have downloaded the pretest TeX Live (not in form of MacTeX, but as
the regular unix script). Since the binaries for 64-bit Snow Leopard
have been added this year - is there a reason why they are not
"recognized" by default?
if ($OS eq "darwin") {
# We never want to guess x86_64-darwin even if config.guess
# does, because Leopard can be 64-bit but our x86_64-darwin
# binaries will only run on Snow Leopard.
$CPU = "universal";
} elsif ($CPU =~ /^i.86$/) {
$CPU = "i386"; # 586, 686, whatever
}
This is (though I admit it's ugly) code that we use in ConTeXt to
determine the platform:
# if running Snow Leopard or later
# better: /usr/bin/sw_vers -productVersion
if test `uname -r|cut -f1 -d"."` -ge 10 ; then
# if working on 64-bit hardware
if test `sysctl -n hw.cpu64bit_capable` = 1; then
# snowleopard32=TRUE
platform="osx-64"
fi
fi
Mojca
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