port should not complain about +universal, CFLAGS/LDFLAGS, configure.universal_cflags-append/configure.universal_ldflags-append

[Elias Pipping]

Sure, where would you want me to put it?

On Mar 18, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Randall Wood wrote:

> Can you put that list in Trac?
>
> On 18 Mar 2007, at 06:52, Elias Pipping wrote:
>
>> Let's wait for official support of +universal with that...
>>
>> eventually the whole if clause will be gone anyway.
>>
>> I mean really, there's worse problems than obsolete warnings,  
>> especially with gettext. e.g. gettext +universal is somehow  
>> incomplete: all the libasprintf-related files are missing  
>> completely. diff the results of port contents with and without  
>> +universal and see for yourself (ideas, patches appreciated)
>>
>> see also http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~pipping/macports/universal  
>> for a list of such problems.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Elias
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> When installing gettext +universal, port warns me that it might  
>>> not work because the port already overrides CFLAGS or LDFLAGS:
>>>
>>> $ sudo port install gettext +universal
>>> Warning: This port already overrides CFLAGS or LDFLAGS. The  
>>> universal variant may break it.
>>> --->  Extracting gettext
>>> --->  Applying patches to gettext
>>> --->  Configuring gettext
>>> --->  Building gettext with target all
>>> --->  Staging gettext into destroot
>>> --->  Installing gettext 0.16.1_0+universal
>>> --->  Activating gettext 0.16.1_0+universal
>>> $
>>>
>>> However, this is not a problem here because the gettext port  
>>> deals with the situation:
>>>
>>> if {[llength [info commands configure.universal_ldflags-append]]  
>>> > 0} {
>>> 	configure.universal_ldflags-append -L$prefix/lib
>>> 	configure.universal_cflags-append -I$prefix/include -no-cpp-precomp
>>> } else {
>>> 	variant universal {
>>> 		return -code error "You need to be running MacPorts 1.4.0 or  
>>> higher to \
>>> 		use this variant (universal)."
>>> 	}
>>> }
>>>
>>> port should not print that warning if configure.universal_cflags- 
>>> append or .universal_ldflags-append are used.
>>>
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