Help in writing a portfile: "configure: error: cannot find socket library"

[Paulo Moura]

On 2010/09/17, at 02:05, Jon Hermansen wrote:

> Hi Paulo,
> It would be helpful to have a diff of the complete './configure'
> step's output that you get from the terminal vs. what you're getting
> from building through MacPorts. Also, if you could attach your current
> version of the Portfile, I'd be willing to help debug it...
> 
> If you're looking for a quick fix (and don't need the sockets
> facility) you can add '--disable-sockets' to configure.args

Thanks for your suggestion. Trying yo disable sockets lead me to find that MacPorts was trying to build GNU Prolog 64 bit, which is not supported. Forcing 32 bit compilation by using "configure.build_arch i386" seem to did the trick :-)

Cheers,

Paulo


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