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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 25, 2007, at 14:34, Fred Brown Althot wrote:

> On 25-Oct-07, at 3:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Oct 25, 2007, at 14:24, Fred Brown Althot wrote:
>>
>>> 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_ 
>>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> MacPorts is designed to use its own software only, not any  
>> software you've installed manually outside of MacPorts. There are  
>> some carefully-chosed exceptions, but I don't think python is one  
>> of them.
>>
>> So if you're not on a 64-bit PowerPC machine, I wonder why it's  
>> complaining that something is not a valid ppc64 mach-o file. Are  
>> any of your ports compiled universally? (Did you say "sudo port  
>> install foo +universal" for any foo?)
>
> The only +universal I used was on python25 itself after the GIMP  
> install first started giving me that error, and I think it resulted  
> in the same error again. That's when I gave the "maybe it checks  
> for dependencies independently of installing them" chance a try  
> with the .mpkg, and as you said, that was futile.

It looks like this has been reported in our issue tracker already:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12887

I don't see a solution there yet.


But, in this prior thread:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-October/ 
006062.html

The issue was that someone was using Xcode 2.2 and upgrading to 2.4.1  
fixed it. Again, what version of Xcode do you have?