296898 - Universal Binary Implementation/Mac-Intel Compatability

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jamie Diamond]

With a deadline being set at in two years or sooner, Camino should be built as a universal binary in Xcode, 
working on Macs with PowerPC and Intel archatectures. Xcode 2.1 has already been released which 
enables the option to build working apps on Intel and PowerPC versions of Mac OS 10.4. Will it be possible 
to make Firefox compatable cross processor too?

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> With a deadline being set at in two years or sooner, Camino should be built as
a universal binary in Xcode, 
> working on Macs with PowerPC and Intel archatectures. Xcode 2.1 has already
been released which 
> enables the option to build working apps on Intel and PowerPC versions of Mac
OS 10.4. Will it be possible 
> to make Firefox compatable cross processor too?

Please file a new bug (or look for an existing) regarding Firefox's cross
compatibility. Also note: Apple developers already "ported" Firefox to the Intel
processors as a test subject. They submitted the patches to Mozilla for landing.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

smfr says that there is a perl script which will let you build a gcc3.3/10.2SDK
version for PPC and a gcc4.0/10.4SDK version for intel and then mash them
together for a universal binary. doesn't solve all the problems, but helps a bit.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

cc'ing simon

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

cc'ing myself and Mark; this just got a lot more important since Intel Macs are gonna be out in the wild by next month. Re-targeting for 1.1; if we can make 1.0, great, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> cc'ing myself and Mark; this just got a lot more important since Intel Macs are
> gonna be out in the wild by next month.
                              ^^^^
                              this
The iMacs are available now.

Comment 7

[Cameron Kaiser [:spectre]]

How badly would this affect compatibility for 10.2 and 10.3, however?

Comment 8

[Stuart Morgan]

> How badly would this affect compatibility for 10.2 and 10.3, however?

Not at all

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

mento, any reason this is not FIXED now, or do you want to use if for tracking patch migration to all the branches or something?

Comment 10

[Mark Mentovai]

This is covered in 12 other places, but as far as 1.0 is concerned, it's a done deal.