Error installing p5-net-libidn

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 12, 2010, at 16:42, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 

>>    Hmm. Well, the lack of -arch flags in LDFLAGS is a bug in MacPorts 
>>    1.8.0 through 1.8.2. You can install MacPorts from the 1.8 branch to 
>>    get the fix for this. But I don't understand why it would default to 
>>    i386. gcc should be defaulting to x86_64 on a 64-bit Mac running Snow 
>>    Leopard.
> 
> Can you point me to docs or something that tells me how to so this?  Is this like a CVD or git type of pull, or is there an easy way for me to move on this.  I just want to be able to work it locally here, I will not release the Portfile until the official is out, which should solve this.

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.html#installing.macports.subversion

Except instead of using 

http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk

you can use

http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_1_8


> Though I would love to know why it is defaulting to 1386 when I am clearly not on that architecture, and none of the other 12 or so p5's had issues, and there were about 6 or so more, which I suspect are going to go in clean as well.

I am as baffled as you. I cannot explain why it's defaulting to i386 on your system in this case. Let us know if you find out why.