[MacPorts] #18214: muniversal portgroup uses host core2-apple-darwin

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#18214: muniversal portgroup uses host core2-apple-darwin
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 Reporter:  ryandesign@…             |       Owner:  mcalhoun@…           
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future      
Component:  base                     |     Version:  1.7.0                
 Keywords:                           |        Port:                       
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 When building universal on a PowerPC Mac, the muniversal portgroup uses
 the host core2-apple-darwin to build the Intel parts, but at least on my
 Power Mac G4 with Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Xcode 2.5, it doesn't know any such
 host. Here is the output I get from cairo @1.8.6_3:

 {{{
 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_graphics_cairo/work/i386"
 && ./configure --prefix=/mp --disable-glitz --disable-xcb --enable-ft
 --enable-pdf --enable-png --enable-ps --enable-svg --enable-xlib --enable-
 xlib-xrender --with-x --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-quartz
 --enable-quartz-font --enable-quartz-image --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/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 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/config.sub core2-apple-darwin failed

 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
 }}}

 I get [comment:ticket:18190:1 the same output] from libiconv @1.12_2 if I
 use the original patch that was in #18190.

 I had never heard of "core2-apple-darwin" before seeing it in the
 muniversal portgroup code, and [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22core2
 -apple-darwin%22 searching Google], there are no hits for "core2-apple-
 darwin" except as part of the muniversal portgroup. Shouldn't it be "i686
 -apple-darwin" for which [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22i686-apple-
 darwin%22 Google has] thousands of results? If I change core2-apple-darwin
 to i686-apple-darwin in the muniversal portgroup, then I can build
 libiconv universal (2-way 32-bit) without needing to set merger_host in
 the libiconv portfile. Maybe that doesn't properly take 64-bit into
 account. So the portgroup should set host to i686-apple-darwin or x86_64
 -apple-darwin accordingly. All I know is "`locate i686-apple-darwin`" and
 "`locate x86_64-apple-darwin`" return plenty of results on my Power Mac
 whereas "`locate core2-apple-darwin`" returns none.

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