ENV to macports

[Timothy Lee]

So here is the issue...
I can't compile universal. The project that I'm building for includes  
too many macports ports and I can't get all of the macports to  
successfully install.

I DO have a 10.4 PPC machine that has successfully built everything  
that I need (obviously with no args added, its targeting 10.4).
I want to build a 10.4 i386 build on my leopard i386 machine.
When this is complete, I'll 'lipo' together all pieces of each  
individual tree (using mozilla's 'unify' script).

I have tried adding +universal to my variants.conf and changing my  
macports.conf to universal_target to 10.4, universal_sysroot to the  
10.4 sdk, and universal_archs to ONLY i386 (as per your suggestion).  
Unfortunately this didn't work (too many assumptions in macports  
regarding the +universal variant and having at least two archs present).

So now my only option is to explicitly drive into macports my CFLAGS,  
LDFLAGS, and most importantly my MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET vars.

Is it possible to 'pass in' this information to macports?


Thanks
Tim

On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> Timothy Lee wrote:
>> Is it possible to 'pass in' environment variables to the 'port  
>> install'
>> command?
>>
>> Or is the only way to pass something like CFLAGS to macports is  
>> through
>> a portfile?
>>
>> For example... I would like to
>> $sudo port install pan2 CFLAGS="-isysroot /Developers/SDKs/ 
>> MacOSX10.4u.sdk"
>>
>> thoughts?
>
> Why do you need to set the sysroot? The universal_sysroot setting from
> macports.conf will be used when building with the universal variant,  
> and
> when building non-universal an SDK shouldn't be needed. If pan2 does
> need it for some reason, then it should be added in the portfile.
>
> It is *possible* to tell MP to use arbitrary parts of your  
> environment,
> but it's almost certainly a bad idea.
>
> - Josh