[MacPorts] #60165: meson @0.53.2 produces on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, faulty files with illegal loader switch '-Wl, -rpath, @loader_path/'

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#60165: meson @0.53.2 produces on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, faulty files with
illegal loader switch '-Wl,-rpath, at loader_path/'
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  Reporter:  ballapete  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal     |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports      |    Version:  2.6.2
Resolution:             |   Keywords:  tiger powerpc legacy-os
      Port:  meson      |
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Comment (by ballapete):

 Replying to [comment:20 kencu]:
 >
 > I have not seen that "timestamps before 1980" error. Give me an idea
 where you saw that one? There is some meson ticket in MacPorts about old
 timestamps.... I guess that is not really a meson issue?

 Yes, it's not a `Meson` issue, it's consequence of using Apple's `gnutar`
 and it only appears when performing `env CC='/opt/local/bin/gcc-apple-4.2'
 ./run_tests.py` – possibly the environment needs some more help than just
 setting `CC`. And a few of the tests performed are invoking `Zip` which
 fail because of the files' date. (They are still running and I need to
 study their output later.)
 >
 > on my Tiger systems, meson uses python38, and doesn't seem to need any
 more packages to function, but I also see that "gcovr" error -- does that
 not happen on newer systems? If not, why not?

 The tests, with `Python 3.8` too, need additional packages, at least this
 one:

 {{{
 root 252 /\ port install py38-jsonschema
 --->  Computing dependencies for py38-jsonschema
 The following dependencies will be installed:
  py38-attrs
  py38-importlib-metadata
  py38-pyrsistent
  py38-setuptools_scm
  py38-toml
  py38-zipp
 }}}

 The expressed need for `gcovr` comes an old `gcov` from `GCC 4.2`. Since
 more up-to-date Macs use Clang they might have an up-to-date `gcov`
 version… (I'll check on Catalina and High Sierra.)

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