can't build universal binary of ncursesw on ppc

[ak@…]

When trying to install universal gtk2 on a PPC machine, the following error occurs:

$ sudo port install py25-gtk +universal +quartz +no_x11
--->  Computing dependencies for py25-gtk
When building a universal binary of gtk2, make sure none of {i386 x86_64} is first in universal_archs in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf
Error: Unable to execute port: incompatible universal_archs value

[martijn@…]

Cc Me!

[blb@…]

That error message appears to be coming from the gtk2 Portfile; does it mean the only way to build gtk2 universal is to put ppc first in universal_archs?

[ak@…]

I don't know - putting ppc first would probably break universal build on intel machines in the same way.

[martijn@…]

That doesn't work, I don't remember the error but it failed.

[martijn@…]

Is there an ETA for a fix?

[nox@…]

No. And I can't help if I don't know what happened when you put ppc in first.

[martijn@…]

Putting ppc in first ain't working either. I already confirmed putting ppc first did not help, but maybe I wasn't clear enough. Thanks for looking at it!

[nox@…]

I want the log of what happens when you put ppc in first.

[nox@…]

Could you try again with 2.18.5?

[martijn@…]

Hi there,

I will try this asap (probably Sunday).

Thanks!

[martijn@…]

Tried it.... First result I got was

sudo port install py25-gtk +universal +quartz +no_x11 py25-py2app +universal +quartz +no_x11 py25-bz2 +universal +quartz +no_x11 py25-mutagen +universal +quartz +no_x11
--->  Computing dependencies for py25-gtkWhen building a universal binary of gtk2, make sure none of {i386 x86_64} is first in universal_archs in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf
Error: Unable to execute port: incompatible universal_archs value

So the I put in ppc first in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf which resulted in

configure: error: Cross-build requires two compilers.
Use --with-build-cc to specify the native compiler.

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: atk gettext ncurses ncursesw glib2 autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5 perl5.8 m4 automake libtool pkgconfig gtk-doc docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils iso-codes libxslt libxml2 zlib p5-xml-parser py26-libxml2 python26 bzip2 db46 gdbm openssl readline sqlite3 tk tcl rarian getopt intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils gtk2 cairo fontconfig freetype libpixman libpng jasper jpeg pango shared-mime-info tiff libglade2 py25-cairo py25-numpy atlas gcc43 gmp mpfr gzip fftw-3 py25-nose py25-setuptools python25 py25-gobject
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[nox@…]

Please paste or attach the output of sudo port -d configure gtk2 +universal +quartz

[martijn@…]

sudo port -d configure gtk2 +universal +quartz

[martijn@…]

file with output attached!

[nox@…]

Ok, that's not gtk2 which is failing, it's ncursesw.

[nox@…]

see #21434

[martijn@…]

Alright. Cheers for looking into it!