can't read "configure.universal_ldflags": no such variable

[Joshua Root]

Joshua Root wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I am having trouble upgrading an increasing number of ports (for example
>> whois, glib2, python25). I'm only seeing this problem on one machine, as
>> far as I can tell, which is running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Intel, Xcode 2.5,
>> MacPorts 1.7.1. Any ideas? Is anyone else seeing this?
>>
>>
>> $ port -uxd upgrade whois
> ...
>> DEBUG: Using group file
>> /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/_resources/port1.0/group/muniversal-1.0.tcl
> 
> Your whois Portfile is obviously different to the one in the tree (which
> doesn't use muniversal), so it's going to be difficult for anyone else
> to debug.

Urgh, sorry, I misread; it's actually gettext failing. Still, the error
seems to occur in muniversal, and the line number doesn't seem to match
up with the version in the tree.

I can't reproduce the failure on a ppc Tiger machine with Xcode 2.5.

- Josh