qt4-mac on M1

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

On Github:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/master/_resources/port1.0/group

In your local install:
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/
rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/group


On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 9:36 PM Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:

> Where are the portgroups (like qt4) defined?
> —
> Peter West
> pbw at ehealth.id.au
> “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the
> dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”
>
> On 2 Apr 2022, at 1:26 pm, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
>
> Down the rabbit hole.
>
> I’m following dependencies which have their own dependency on qt4-mac and
> are set to universal, I presume, because I get messages like
>
> Error: Cannot install automoc for the archs 'arm64 x86_64' because
> Error: its dependency qt4-mac only supports the archs 'ppc ppc64 i386
> x86_64'.
> —
> Peter West
> pbw at ehealth.id.au
> “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the
> dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”
>
> On 2 Apr 2022, at 12:44 am, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2022, at 09:42, Peter West wrote:
>
> On 1 Apr 2022, at 11:53 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2022, at 04:32, Peter West wrote:
>
> On 1 Apr 2022, at 7:22 pm, Peter West wrote:
>
>
> I just tried to install kmymoney4 on my M1 running 12.2.1. MacPorts spat
> the dummy with
>
> Error: Cannot install kmymoney4 for the arch 'arm64' because
> Error: its dependency qt4-mac only supports the archs 'ppc ppc64 i386
> x86_64’.
>
>
> Is it possible for me to install this somehow?
>
> Should I file a ticket for this?
>
>
> My Xcode version is 13.3. #61789 was closed as fixed 8 months ago.
>
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61789#comment:6 says "qt4-mac is old
> enough that my best guess is it'll take significant work to get it working
> on ARM64". Therefore #61789 was fixed by making the qt4-mac port indicate
> that it does not support the arm64 architecture, and thus if you try to
> install it on an Apple Silicon Mac, MacPorts should install it for the
> x86_64 architecture instead and it will run in emulation via Rosetta 2.
>
> However, kmymoney4 and probably most other ports that depend on qt4-mac do
> not similarly indicate that they do not support arm64, therefore MacPorts
> tries to install them and their dependencies (including qt4-mac) for arm64,
> which as we know doesn't work.
>
> The kmymoney4 portfile does include the kde4 portgroup which in turn
> includes the qt4 portgroup. The qt4 portgroup seems like a great place to
> set supported_archs to indicate non-support of arm64.
>
>
> Can I do this with a local portfile?
>
>
> Sure. To test whether this works, you could add the line
>
> supported_archs ppc ppc64 i386 x86_64
>
> to the kmymoney4 portfile.
>
>
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