When I come across software I might need to add into Mac OS X that requires compilation, I typically want to produce one Universal Binary. Make it a four-way UB and you get both 32- and 64-bit support.
A single binary is ideal for a Radmind transcript (or other package, if you wanted to bundle it into an installer) that can be deployed on both PowerPC and Intel Macs on Leopard.
Since rsync 3.0.2 with some patches is apparently working quite well at preserving Mac OS X data and metadata — passing the Backup Bouncer tests — I thought I’d try my hand at a four-way Universal Binary.
What worked for me, using a Mac Pro 4x2.8 GHz with Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Xcode 3.0, was to start with Mike Bombich’s instructions and modify them with some fairly standard Universal Binary build steps. The configure and compile were both less than a minute on this system.
$ ./prepare-source
$ env CFLAGS="-O -g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64" \
LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-dependency-tracking
$ make
$ sudo make install
I have seen the use of “-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk,” in the LDFLAGS environment variable when compiling some applications but this did not work for me with rsync; when I removed it, rsync 3.0.2 configured successfully for me.
The result of the above build process appears to be a full four-way UB:
$ lipo -info /usr/local/bin/rsync
Architectures in the fat file: /usr/local/bin/rsync are: i386 ppc7400 ppc64 x86_64
A local transfer on the build system appears to have worked correctly. I did not test with Backup Bouncer, sync with a non-Mac system, or when shuttling data between architectures. So, accept these results with a grain of salt; I’m just happy I got rsync to compile for now.