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39	39	=== Is MacPorts Universal? === #universal
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41		MacPorts works on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs, but the ports you install will be compiled only for the architecture you're currently running on. This means that if you migrate from, say, a PowerPC Mac to an Intel one and use Migration Assistant to copy your data to the new machine, you should reinstall all your ports on the new machine to rebuild them for Intel. See the Migration link in the previous question.
	41	MacPorts works on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs, but, by default, the ports you install will be compiled only for the architecture you're currently running on. This means that if you migrate from, say, a PowerPC Mac to an Intel one and use Migration Assistant to copy your data to the new machine, you should reinstall all your ports on the new machine to rebuild them for Intel. See the Migration link in the previous question.
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43	43	For many ports, there's now an alternative: select the +universal variant when you build each port, and MacPorts will create universal binaries that work on multiple processor architectures. The set of architectures is controlled by the `universal_archs` setting in [http://guide.macports.org/chunked/internals.configuration-files.html#internals.configuration-files.macports-conf macports.conf].