python25 "not a valid ppc64 mach-o file" error while trying to install gimp

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 25, 2007, at 12:57, Fred Brown Althot wrote:

> When trying to install the GIMP, I get this little nasty:
>
>> freds-computer:~ fred$ sudo port install -f gimp-app
>> Password:
>> --->  Building python25 with target all
>> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/ 
>> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang 
>> _python25/work/Python-2.5.1" && make all " returned error 2
>> Command output: libtool -o libpython2.5.dylib -dynamic  \
>>         -all_load libpython2.5.a -single_module \
>>         -install_name /opt/local/lib/libpython2.5.dylib \
>>         -compatibility_version 2.5 \
>>         -current_version 2.5 -lSystem -lSystemStubs -L/opt/local/lib
>> ld64 failed: in libpython2.5.a(__.SYMDEF), not a valid ppc64 mach- 
>> o file
>> libtool: internal link edit command failed
>> make: *** [libpython2.5.dylib] Error 1
>>
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp2 py25-gtk  
>> py25-cairo py25-numeric python25 py25-gobject
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Now, I tried installing python 2.5 independently with a package,  
> that seemed to work fine, but I still get the same error (I was  
> hoping it would detect the installed dependency and move on, but  
> alas, it does not).
>
> Any help overcoming this setback would be greatly appreciated,  
> because I'm running out of ideas right now.

You are presumably on a 64-bit PowerPC machine, as in a G5? What  
version of Mac OS X, Xcode and MacPorts are you using?