[23439] trunk/dports/archivers/zlib/Portfile

[Randall Wood]

This seems to be one of those "if you can't make it work in the  
current release (1.4) then you shouldn't do it situations"

Until the current release has universal support then I would not  
commit universalized ports.

On 1 Apr 2007, at 09:46, Elias Pipping wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed you removed the line
>
>   configure.universal_args ${configure.args}
>
> the line should have read
>
>   configure.universal_args {}
>
> which would still break 1.4 but work as expected when running the  
> trunk.
>
> the reason the line can't simply be removed (doing so broke zlib  
> +universal) is that the default universal variant is used, which  
> includes CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and configure.args (--disable-dependency- 
> tracking). Whereas the flags are fine and needed, the  
> configure.args are not:
>
>   <snip> ./configure <snip> --disable-dependency-tracking'
>   unknown option: --disable-dependency-tracking
>
> so i overwrote them. one way or another that has to be done - only  
> way around it would be to override the default universal variant  
> and add the flags in there manually, which is a pain. i tried and  
> it doesn't work:
>
> variant universal {
>     set f "-arch i386 -arch ppc"
>     configure.env-append \
>     CFLAGS="\${CFLAGS} -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk $ 
> {f}" \
>     LDFLAGS="\${LDFLAGS} ${f}"
> }
>
> make: *** Recursive variable `CFLAGS' references itself  
> (eventually).  Stop.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Elias
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Randall Wood
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