Why does MacPorts try to rebuild cmake universal?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Jan 8 14:48:44 PST 2014


On 2013-12-19 19:28 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I’m trying to install a port universal on Leopard. It fails because one of its dependencies is cmake, and:
> 
> Error: cmake cannot be installed for the configured universal_archs 'i386 ppc' because it only supports the arch(s) 'i386 x86_64’.
> 
> Why is MacPorts trying to install cmake universal? It’s already installed non-universal, and the cmake Portfile contains the line:
> 
> installs_libs no

Even with the bug fixed, this is still not going to work when cmake is
not already installed. Probably cmake should be disabling the universal
variant if it's not going to work, or specifying
configure.universal_archs itself.

- Josh


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