Help with a Portfile (part 2)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 15, 2019, at 15:55, Eric F (iEFdev) wrote:

> Thanks for all the help with last one. 👍
> 
> Now I'm doing the other (last) one(s), and I'm not really sure how to do this.
> 
> It's a 2 part install. C lib (dependency) + a module.
>     - https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/
>     - https://github.com/maxmind/mod_maxminddb/
> 
> The C lib builds and installs fine, but the module throw me some errors.
> 
> > :info:build /opt/local/bin/apxs -c -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -arch x86_64 -lmaxminddb  -Wc,"-pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -std=c99 -fms-extensions"
>   mod_maxminddb.c
> > :info:build apxs:Error: Unknown option: r.
> > :info:build apxs:Error: Unknown option: h.
> 
> I could build it manually in it's folder with:
> 
>     $ sudo LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-apxs=/opt/local/bin/apxs
>     $ sudo make

Sounds like apxs doesn't like the -arch flag, so don't pass that to it. Maybe using "-Wl,-arch,x86_64" instead of "-arch x86_64" is what you need. Or maybe you don't need an -arch flag at all.


> My default i gcc (7, I think)
> 
> So I tried with (just to compare):
> 
>     configure.compiler macports-clang-5.0      // didn't work
> 
>     configure.compiler macports-gcc-5          
> // worked
> Also tried to blacklist some compliers, etc.
> 
> So, how to chose/setup a suitable compiler? and… if going with gcc, doesn't the C lib have to use the same as well then?

Please don't attempt to make the Portfile use gcc. We want to use clang.