Trace mode (was: Re: Process for checking port dependencies)

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:52:49PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 19:17, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> This is the main problem that trace mode (-t) was designed to solve.
>
> Speaking of trace mode, it doesn't work for me. Fails during extract  
> already:
>
> $ port -dt extract zlib
[...]
> DEBUG: Environment: MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET='10.4'
> DEBUG: Assembled command: 'cd "/mp/var/macports/build/ 
> _Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_archivers_zlib/work" && /mp/bin/bzip2 -dc 
> /mp/var/macports/distfiles/zlib/zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 | /usr/bin/gnutar 
> --no-same-owner -xf -'
> Warning: setrlimit failed (1)
> dyld: could not load inserted library: /mp/share/macports/Tcl/ 
> darwintrace1.0/darwintrace.dylib
>
>
> The problem seems to be that darwintrace.dylib is compiled for i386 only 
> but my bzip2 is 4-way universal. If I deactivate bzip2 +universal and 
> install bzip2 non-universal it extracts fine.
>
> So for darwintrace to work with 4-way universal ports, I need to build 
> MacPorts base as 4-way universal? I have tried, but I get:
>
>
> checking objc/objc.h usability... yes
> checking objc/objc.h presence... yes
> checking for objc/objc.h... yes
> checking if linking libobjc requires pthreads... no
> checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... no
> checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
> configure: error: Could not locate a working Objective-C runtime.
> See `config.log' for more details.

Note that /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib, on 10.4, is only a 32bit universal
library, so perhaps that's what's keeping the 64bit side from working?

Bryan