can't read "configure.ld_archflags" error while upgrading mercurial

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-5-17 10:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On May 16, 2010, at 18:48, Kastus Shchuka wrote:
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>> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: can't read "configure.ld_archflags": no such variable
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> This is not specific to mercurial; it was caused by r67722 which changed the python26 portgroup to use the configure.ld_archflags variable, which is only available as of MacPorts 1.9.0. This needs to be fixed to only use that variable if it is available. I've added a note to this ticket:
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> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24802

Wouldn't it have been quicker to fix it than to write that note?