Finding a port's dependency which requires universal?

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Thu Apr 18 02:17:36 PDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2013, at 5:20 PM, mk-macports at techno.ms wrote:
>
>> On Apr 17, 2013, at 11:12 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>>> The wxmaxima port itself only supports i386 and ppc architectures. I don't know why.
>>
>> Oh, I see, it is wxmaxima itself!
>>
>> ppc is of even less use for me…
>>
>> So, perhaps wxmaxima just needs an update to also supply 64bit?
>
> If I had to, I'd guess that it's because of the dependency on the wxWidgets port. The "wxwidgets_devel" variant changes the supported_archs to i386 and x86_64.

Yes, that is definitely the case.

I didn't try it, but you could try to install wxmaxima
+wxwidgets_devel. That one at least claims to support 64-bit.

Mojca


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