Re: How to disable GCC parallel compilation of universal binaries?

In article <1169124122.249350@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In comp.sys.mac.programmer.help Gabriele Greco 
> <gabrielegreco@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I know it's a useful feature since I have a core duo processor, but
I'm 
> > compiling quite heavy C++ sources and my machine has not enough memory

> > to keep TWO instances of GCC compiling them in memory at once..
> > 
> > I ran through configure/make command line, and I have configured with 
> > CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS:
> > 
> > -arch i386 -arch ppc
> > 
> > There is some other flag that let you tell GCC not to compile the two 
> > archs at the same time?
> 
> There is no reason to compile for both architectures during development.

> Since your development machine is i386, kill the -arch ppc. You can put
it 
> back when you're ready to build for deployment and, I suppose, just
suffer 
> through the build times in that case.
> 
> As an alternative, you can build once with -arch i386 and a second time 
> with -arch ppc, then use /usr/bin/lipo to stitch the two binaries 
> together.

you can also use xcode and only compile one architecture at a time and 
then turn them both on and build without cleaning.