Cannot build DOSBOX

[Chris Jones]

> On 19 Sep 2022, at 5:40 am, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> Sigh; it never rains but it pours...
> 
> Trying to build DOSBOX I get:
> 
>    --->  Computing dependencies for dosbox
>    Error: Cannot install dosbox for the arch 'i386' because
>    Error: its dependency libsdl does not build for the required arch by default
>    Error: and the configured universal_archs '' are not sufficient.
> 
> macports.conf:
> 
>    # Space-delimited list of CPU architectures to target when building
>    # universal. Defaults to "i386 ppc" on Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier,
>    # "x86_64 i386" on Mac OS X 10.6 through macOS 10.13, "x86_64" on
>    # macOS 10.14 and 10.15 (these SDKs are not universal), and
>    # "arm64 x86_64" on macOS 11 and later. Set an empty value to disable
>    # universal building.
>    #universal_archs        x86_64 i386
>    universal_archs
> 
> Should I hardwire it to those?  I ain't likely to use PPC etc.

By default macports.conf does not explicitly set universal_archs at all, so you must have manually adding that setting yourself at some point. Presumably you cannot remember why ? If not, i suggest just removing it and thus go back to using the default settings.
> 
> I vaguely remember seeing the same thing with WINE and was going to
> report it.
> 
> -- Dave