MacPorts recorded graphviz-oldgui was installed with arch i386 but it actually installed arch ppc

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-6-13 04:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> graphviz-oldgui installs a pre-compiled binary; source is not available. The binary is ppc-only so in r68725 I added "supported_archs ppc". I was surprised then to see that on my Snow Leopard Mac MacPorts recorded in the registry that this port was installed with the arch i386:
> 
> $ port -v installed graphviz-oldgui
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   graphviz-oldgui @16_0 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='i386'
> 
> I had expected to see "archs='ppc'" not "archs='i386'".
> 
> I filed this as #25219 but Joshua closed it as invalid, saying I should write "configure.build_arch ppc".
> 
> I don't understand why the value MacPorts automatically set configure.build_arch to was not one of the archs supported by the port nor why this is not considered a bug.

If the user has configured i386 in macports.conf, why should they get
ppc? You are making unfounded assumptions about the value of
configure.build_arch; try printing it. If there's a bug, it's that we
don't error out when the chosen build arch is unsupported.

- Josh