building hugin on OSX [Re: [ptx] mono and autopano-sift under OS X using fink]

[JD Smith]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:38 +0200, Pablo d'Angelo wrote:
> JD Smith wrote:
> > Very cool, thanks.  You mention in build_using_cmdline.txt the
> > limitation of "no universal binary".  You might be interested in this
> > tech-note from Apple -- 'Building Universal Binaries from
> > "configure"-based Open Source Projects':
> > 
> > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2137.html
> 
> While I haven't read this document yet, it is probably possible when
> specifiying some special ./configure flags to build a ppc and an i386
> version, and merging them afterwards. However, people that will use
> darwinports or fink will not have the dependencies compiled for the
> different architectures, so it is more complicated to build everything, and
> one can then use the same way ippei is building the OS X binaries (which is
> documented in the same subdirectory).

Very good point.  Though it would be nice to have this automated, to
relieve Ippei the drudgery of making a distributable Hugin.app for every
point release, it sounds like more trouble than it is worth.  Thanks
again for the command-line OSX compile.  

JD