Install fails for gcc42 - libgfortran.a has no symbols?!

[Randy Burgess]

Yes, I saw the ticket you mention related to Snow Leopard, and as you  
say that's a very different error.

As far as I can judge by the debug messages during the configure  
phase, there is no way to specify the -arch flag for this port of  
gcc42 - though since I know so little about this sort of thing, I  
could easily be wrong. Wish I could be more helpful.

On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2009, at 06:50, Randy Burgess wrote:
>
>> Having switched to Snow Leopard (10.6.1) for my white Macbook  
>> (Intel Core 2 Duo) I belatedly realized I needed to reinstall  
>> Macports. I've followed the migration instructions, i.e. installing  
>> the latest version of XCode (3.2, 1610) and of Macports (1.8.0),  
>> then cleaning removing old ports and re-installing ports I want to  
>> keep.
>>
>> My only problem so far has been trying to reinstall pdftk, which  
>> has a dependency of gcc42. Here's the error I keep getting for  
>> gcc42 - any help appreciated:
>>
>> bash-3.2$ sudo port install -d gcc42
>> --->  Computing dependencies for gcc42
>> --->  Fetching gcc42
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gcc42
>> --->  Extracting gcc42
>> --->  Configuring gcc42
>> --->  Building gcc42
>> ^[[AError: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/ 
>> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_gcc42 
>> /work/build" && /usr/bin/make -j2 all " returned error 2
>> Command output: /usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libgfortran.a 
>> (_exp_c16.o) has no symbols
>> /usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libgfortran.a(_log_r16.o) has no symbols
>
> There is a ticket about gcc42 build failures on Snow Leopard but the  
> error is different than yours:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20933
>
> Are you trying to build universal, or for the i386 arch, or for the  
> usual x86_64 arch?
>
> As the maintainer of pdftk, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about  
> it if gcc42 cannot be made to compile on Snow Leopard, since pdftk  
> cannot be updated to use a newer gcc unless the developers rewrite  
> it a bit, and the developers don't seem particularly interested in  
> it anymore:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15420
>