On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Ted Roby <ted.roby@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've noticed this environment variable in misc/hfsplus
>
>
> # this only makes sense on macintosh (powerpc) systems.
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= powerpc
>
>
> It used to only make sense on powerpc systems, but Macintosh
> hardware now uses i386 architecture. Of course, changing this
> variable is not enough to cause a successful build.
>
> Has someone else setup a common way to get misc/hfsplus
> on i386, and I missed the answer on google?
>
> Is there a reason this would be a bad idea?
>
> If I "port" this port to i386 would it be warmly accepted?

I'm sure someone else will correct me if I'm wrong.  I believe the
only reason this is needed on ppc machines is because the openfirmware
expects an hfs volume to boot from so the bootloader is stored on a
small hfs partition.  If that's the case this isn't needed on i386
Macs.

-Bryan