Why does MacPorts try to rebuild cmake universal?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

If cmake is included as depends_build only, why does MacPorts actually care about it being +universal?

Whenever building cmake kills my workflow, I always edit cmake to disable the universal variant; it’s only a build tool after all.

On Jan 8, 2014, at 17:48, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> 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.