Missing lz4 for PPC

michele.bert at posteo.net michele.bert at posteo.net
Fri Apr 18 08:48:05 UTC 2025


On 17.04.2025 21:12, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2025, at 11:23, Dave Allured wrote:
>> 
>> No, that does not mean that lz4 is not supported on powerpc.  It means 
>> only that precompiled binaries were not made for the latest lz4 
>> version.
>> 
>> Try building the lz4 port directly from source:  port -s -v install 
>> lz4
> 
> We haven't made PowerPC binaries of any ports in many years. It isn't
> a problem since then MacPorts will automatically build from source;
> there is no need to specify the -s flag except to get MacPorts to
> avoid checking for the nonexistent URLs. You can also change
> buildfromsource to always in macports.conf to make that happen every
> time without needing to use -s on the command line every time.

Thanks, I will try in the weekend.
Actually my feeling was that all the packages was compiled by source
(gcc7-bootstrap took almost 2 days!), so I was wondering why lz4 is
looking for precompiled ppc.

Let's see what happens after a clean.
--
Mick



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