[MPlayer-dev-eng] [Q] How to build a universal binary for the Mac OS X?

[Chris Roccati]

On 25 Sep 2006, at 18:01 , Rich Felker wrote:
> IT ABSOLUTELY IS NOT! If you're asking how to do something that's FOR
> YOUR SAKE, it's a user question. Period. It doesn't matter if that

It's not. For example building for intel macs using powerpc systems  
(currently non working) falls under the category of improving the  
mplayer build system to provide a more consistent cross-compiling  
environment.

> something involves the MPlayer code. Development list is for
> discussion among people working on development of MPlayer, either
> current developers or people interested in addressing things on the
> TODO list or that are obviously wanted.

So, you're basically declaring yourself the final judge of the things  
that are "obviously wanted", as you dismissed the building of MacOS  
universal binaries completely useless without waiting for a second  
opinion.

> Hacks to bloat the build system to make stupid apple users happy  
> are not wanted.

Is this the official position of the MPlayer development team?
Is providing a MacOS X universal binary "making stupid apple users  
happy"?

I don't really see how adding a few lines to a 8445 lines script (to  
support a relatively widespread operating system) can be called  
bloat, expecially considering that in the source code you can even  
find workarounds for the far more marginal AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.

As a sidenote, the currently available "official" MacOS binary *IS*  
an universal binary: it would be interesting for the MacOS developers  
to know how it was built.