Defect : xsane does not build universal with gimp support enabled

[yves@…]

--->  Computing dependencies for gimp
Error: Cannot install xsane for the arch(s) 'i386 x86_64' because
Error: its dependency gimp2 does not build for the required arch(s) by default
Error: and does not have a universal variant.
Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch

[devans@…]

gimp2 is not currently universal due to its dependency gegl which does not build universal. I'll revisit this issue but the workaround for now is either to use the +disable_gimp with xsane which will disable building of the gimp xsane plugin or build xsane with -universal (or at least not +universal).

port xsane should probably be marked as not universal when building with gimp support in the meantime.

[michael.klein@…]

see #23947, specifically the attached patch to mark the port as non-universal unless +disable_gimp is set

[devans@…]

See r77896.

(Michael: I didn't see your latest comment until after I committed this slightly different solution. I hope this is acceptable to you.)

[devans@…]

That's r77894. Sorry for the typo.

[devans@…]

Closing as duplicate of #23947.

[michael.klein@…]

Replying to devans@…:

See r77896.

(Michael: I didn't see your latest comment until after I committed this slightly different solution. I hope this is acceptable to you.)

Sure!

[yves@…]

Hi

Thanks for the quick fix !

The problem is almost solved because the gimp META port still depends on xsane and xsane will build with gimp support by default so linking fails.

The workaround right now is to specifically build xsane without gimp support before installing gimp but it does not make much sense in a user perspective.

I wonder if a universal variant of the gimp META port should just drop the xsane dependency.