Bad CPU type in executable

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 28, 2009, at 19:18, Dennis C wrote:

> The only other thing I can think of is that I tried and failed  
> installing from source a program called "Qtstalker" and so maybe  
> that did "who knows what..."  Sorry I forgot to mention it, but  
> thought the error message could be obvious enough anyway...  Thanks  
> for your help though and maybe I'll just have to reinstall everything

Before you do, if you can provide the information I requested earlier  
about the architectures your installed software has, maybe that will  
clue us in about what happened. Try using both "lipo -info /opt/local/ 
bin/perl" and "file /opt/local/bin/perl" to try to find out why your  
perl is not satisfactory to your Mac.

> and hope that Qtstalker or something similar shows up in MacPorts  
> soon because that's what's still keeping me tied to a PC, using that  
> software to manage some market trading...

You could file a port request ticket in the issue tracker. I looked  
into qtstalker briefly just now, and didn't get very far, because it  
requires qt3 (is not compatible with qt4), whereas qt3 is not  
compatible with Snow Leopard (see #21459). Then again, I can't get the  
current qt4 to build on Snow Leopard either; there are tickets for  
this as well. Qt is an unimaginably huge piece of library, which  
probably means it has a bazillion things that could go wrong. To get  
qtstalker in MacPorts, you should either work with the authors of qt  
to get qt3 working properly on Snow Leopard, or work with the authors  
of qtstalker to get it working with qt4 and work with the authors of  
qt to get qt4 working properly in MacPorts. In the mean time, someone  
who still uses Leopard could work on the portfile. (I don't have  
Leopard with me at the moment.)