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

[Fred Brown Althot]

Actually, I'm on an Intel mac.
Sorry, should have mentioned that from the start.
Intel Mac, OS X 10.4
Using the latest version of macports.

After running into this problem, I tried installing the universal  
macpython 2.5.1 with the .mpkg, ran port install again, same problem.

On 25-Oct-07, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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_lan 
>>> g_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?