yosemite and 2008/9 macbookpro compatability, macports install settings for older architecture?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2015-05-28 15:16, ^. .^ wrote:
> i recently upgraded a late 2008 macbookpro to yosemite. with SSD it
> seems to work ok.

Did you follow the migration procedure?

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration

> when running macports to install software i get the following error
> 
> <quote>
>  Error: Cannot install ImageMagick for the arch(s) 'x86_64' because
>  Error: its dependency libtool is only installed for the arch 'i386'
>  Error: and the configured universal_archs 'i386 ppc' are not sufficient.
>  Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch
> </quote>
> 
> 
> I found the macports.conf file and uncommented
> build_arch   i386
> 
> and i cleaned all. but the error remains the same. this machine did not
> have macports on it last time around so i did not follow the whole list
> of migration commands. but should i?
> 
> or what else am i missing?

You probably migrated this MacPorts installation from an older machine,
which still used 32-bit as default build architecture.

After reinstalling MacPorts as recommended by the migration procedure,
please compare your macports.conf against the macports.conf.default. You
will find both files in /opt/local/etc/macports/ after installing the
latest MacPorts version.

Most probably you even want to replace the macports.conf entirely with
the default options unless you made any changes on purpose.

Rainer