build for port boost failed

[John Gleeson]

On 2013-03-09, at 10:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Mar 9, 2013, at 08:29, Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote:
>
>> Trying to upgrade boost on a 2.1 GHz PowerPC running OS X 5.8 – 
>> leopard– gives this error:
>> […]
>> Error: org.macports.build for port boost returned: command  
>> execution failed
>> […]
>> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>>
>> The main log says:
>> […]
>> :info:build libs/context/src/unsupported.cpp:7:2: error: #error  
>> "platform not supported"
>> […]
>> <main.log>
>>
>> It's the same kind of issue? Should I do anything?
>
> This should only be happening for the universal variant. Is that  
> what you're using?
>
> We fixed this yesterday for the i386 x86_64 universal variant:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38298
>
> But if you're using a PowerPC Mac then your universal variant would  
> be i386 ppc and we didn't do anything to fix that so it wouldn't  
> surprise me if it were still affected.
>
> Do you especially need to build universal? That is: do you need to  
> transfer your installed ports to an Intel Mac? If not, don't; it  
> should build fine non-universal.
>

Whoops. I accidentally replied only to Ryan.

Eneko: This problem is special to PPC, and I'm testing a patch for it  
now.

See

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38339

if you would like to know when to do a selfupdate ant try building  
again.