swi-prolog fails because of ncurses (missing required architecture x86_64 in file)

[herbert.fischer@…]

Build of swi-prolog fails because ncurses (build at the same time) does not support x86_64.

_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_swi-prolog/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/swipl-5.6.63/doc/Manual; fi; \
		  for f in ../man/Manual/*.html ../man/Manual/*.gif; do \
		    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_swi-prolog/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/swipl-5.6.63/doc/Manual; \
		  done; \
		fi
cd packages && /usr/bin/make install
for p in clib cpp odbc table xpce sgml sgml/RDF semweb http chr clpqr nlp ssl pldoc plunit jpl zlib; do \
	    if [ -r $p/Makefile ]; then ( cd $p && make install ) || exit 1; fi; \
        done
../plld.sh -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fpic -I. -Imaildrop/rfc2045 -Imaildrop/rfc822 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -c -o random.o random.c
../plld.sh -shared -o random.dylib random.o
ld: in /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib, missing required architecture x86_64 in file
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 returned code 256
*** /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_swi-prolog/work/pl-5.6.63/src/../src/plld exit status 1
make[2]: *** [random.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install-world] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[herbert.fischer@…]

Forgot to mention. It's on Snow Leopard.

[tobypeterson]

It shouldn't be linking against that library under any circumstances.

[herbert.fischer@…]

Managed to reinstall ncurses using +universal and swi-prolog build passed from this point. However, it stops on this new error: (see attachment)

[tobypeterson]

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Also, for such a large amount of output, please add an attachment instead.

[blb@…]

error log

[blb@…]

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[tobypeterson]

Looks like the same error to me - it's still trying to link against a library in /usr/lib

[jvliwanag@…]

Cc Me!

[guiguan@…]

Replying to herbert.fischer@…:

Managed to reinstall ncurses using +universal and swi-prolog build passed from this point. However, it stops on this new error: (see attachment)

It seems the building process stopped at the same point for me even reinstalled ncurses with +universal

[marco.comini@…]

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[cvanweelden@…]

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[cvanweelden@…]

Replying to herbert.fischer@…:

Managed to reinstall ncurses using +universal and swi-prolog build passed from this point. However, it stops on this new error: (see attachment)

Seems I have the same problem. Also tried reinstalling ncurses using +universal.

[cvanweelden@…]

Same problem, slightly different output.

[dominick.saputo@…]

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[nils.reiter@…]

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[macports@…]

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[arnsholt@…]

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[arnsholt@…]

I've encountered the same problem when trying to install on Snow Leopard (10.6.2 to be precise). To me, it looks like the problem is that the linker starts looking for candidates in /usr/lib, rather than /opt/local/lib and that /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib for some bizarre reason only has i386 and ppc versions, while libncurses.5.4.dylib (which is linked to by libncurses.dylib) has x86_64 as well.

A quick fix that worked for me was to install swi-prolog-lite instead. Making libncurses.5.dylib link to libncurses.5.4.dylib should also fix it (I think that's the way it's supposed to be anyways), but I'd rather not muck around too much in my /usr/lib. Another option would be to get the linker to use /opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib instead, which is x86_64.

[J.Liem@…]

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[J.Liem@…]

I think this is a duplicate of ​#21977, which also provides a patch to the Portfile which resolves this issue.