[MacPorts] #18190: RFE: alternate universal build of libiconv

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#18190: RFE: alternate universal build of libiconv
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 Reporter:  mcalhoun@…             |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements      
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.7.0                  
 Keywords:  libiconv universal     |        Port:  libiconv               
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Comment(by ryandesign@…):

 I'd like to use this, but on Tiger / PowerPC it says:

 {{{
 --->  Fetching libiconv
 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for libiconv
 --->  Extracting libiconv
 --->  Applying patches to libiconv
 --->  Configuring libiconv
 universal: Running configure for architecture ppc
 universal: Running configure for architecture i386
 Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell
 command " cd
 "/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_textproc_libiconv/work/i386"
 && ./configure --prefix=/mp --enable-static --mandir=/mp/share/man
 --docdir=/mp/share/doc/libiconv-1.12 --without-libiconv-prefix --without-
 libintl-prefix --disable-nls --enable-extra-encodings --disable-
 dependency-tracking --host=core2-apple-darwin " returned error 1
 Command output: configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type,
 don't use --host.
     If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
 checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... build-aux/install-sh -c -d
 checking for gawk... gawk
 checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
 checking for core2-apple-darwin-strip... no
 checking for strip... strip
 checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
 checking for core2-apple-darwin-gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -arch i386
 checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
 checking whether the C compiler works... yes
 checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
 checking for suffix of executables...
 checking for suffix of object files... o
 checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
 checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -arch i386 accepts -g... yes
 checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -arch i386 option to accept ISO C89... none
 needed
 checking for style of include used by make... GNU
 checking dependency style of /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -arch i386... none
 checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/cpp-4.0
 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
 checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0
 checking host system type... Invalid configuration `core2-apple-darwin':
 machine `core2-apple' not recognized
 configure: error: /bin/sh build-aux/config.sub core2-apple-darwin failed

 Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18190#comment:1>
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