Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Mac OS 10.4 build?
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From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:46:09 -0600
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:40:08PM +1000, Ian Schorr wrote:

> Not to go too off-topic, but I've been meaning to ask.  Do you know 
> what the reason for this is?  Is it just lack of PPC equipment where 
> the build systems are?  Or some other reason?

As you may already know, either a PPC or an Intel machine can generate 
universal binaries that work on both PPC and Intel.  One of the reasons 
we're not generating universal binaries is that some of our supporting 
libraries (such as GLib IIRC) do byte order checks when compiling, so 
the byte order would be hard coded according to the type of system 
compiling the universal binary (recall that PPC is big-endian and Intel 
is little-endian).  This is something worth looking into further since 
it's not nice to leave PPC users behind so soon after the switch to 
Intel CPUs ;).


Steve