quartz-wm build fails on Leopard/ppc due to unknown load command 5

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

See attached log. I've edited the Portfile to include

configure.compiler macports-gcc-4.4

but it fails the same way with Apple's GCC 4.0.

MacBook Pro Intel Core duo
Mac OS X 10.5.8
MacPorts ports tree at r90491
port built about two weeks ago
Xcode 3.1.4

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

:info:build cp libquartz-wm-ds.apsl.dylib libquartz-wm-ds.1.dylib
:info:build install_name_tool -id /opt/local/lib/libquartz-wm-ds.1.dylib libquartz-wm-ds.1.dylib
:info:build install_name_tool: for architecture x86_64 object: libquartz-wm-ds.1.dylib malformed object (unknown load command 5)
:info:build make[2]: *** [libquartz-wm-ds.1.dylib] Error 1

install_name_tool is complaining ... hrm...

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Can you please run the following and report the output:

strings /usr/bin/install_name_tool | grep cctools
strings /Developer/usr/bin/install_name_tool | grep cctools

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm able to reproduce the error on my G4 Leopard machine. The output you requested:

cctools-698.1

The error means that the pre-compiled libraries shipped with the quartz-wm package are newer than the install_name_tool program understands. The only solution would be for Jeremy or whoever's in charge of shipping these libraries to recompile them on an earlier OS (or on a newer OS with support for an earlier OS, if that's possible) and release a new version.

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Yeah, but it's not that trivial because I need to build on a newer OS to support newer features.

I'm actually building them on Snow Leopard with XCode 3 in order to be as backwards compatible as possible ... I'm investigating solutions. Please be patient...

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Please try installing odcctools as of r91264. That should provide a newer install_name_tool. If that works, I'll update the port to depend on it. If it doesn't work, please provide an updated build log.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

odcctools build log

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

Arrgh ... it went and built llvm-3.0_3. That configured, built, and installed, but then odcctools build failed. Log attached.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

Replying to stephen@…:

oops. BTW, I'm actually using r91270 of odcctools. If it's important to use exactly r91264, I'll backtrack.

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Yeah, odcctools is actually now replaced_by cctools, and there are some issues I'm currently working out to get it to build on a wider range of OS versions... sit tight.

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

r91565 will solve this for anyone on Leopard/intel, but Leopard/ppc is probably still an issue...

Adjusting the title to focus on the ppc issue.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

OK, I tried odcctools at about the time of my last post, and that somehow blew up (I've been sick and busy with $day_job for the last week, so I don't recall the details -- will check if this is still a problem on request).

Last night I did "port install cctools && port -u upgrade quartz_wm", which succeeded (after upgrading llvm to 3.0_4, which took enough hours that I went to sleep first). So I confirm that Leopard/Intel works for me now.

Thanks!

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

r91689 works around this issue, but I'll try to address it more properly in the next quartz-wm release. I have not tested it on Tiger yet, and all my OS X boxes are Intel, so I'd appreciate confirmation that it at least works (somewhat) on those old machines.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

After fixing the use of ${os.arch} in r91697, quartz-wm builds and installs for me on PowerPC Leopard. How do I test whether the installed software works?

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

It should be the default quartz-wm used by /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app, or you can force it to be chosen by /Applications/Utilities/X11.app by doing:

sudo gsed -i 's:quartz-wm:/opt/local/bin/quartz-wm:' /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

The above was for Tiger, btw ... Leopard would be a similar change to /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I verified /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app and an xterm launched there works. Anything else I should try?

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

That should be good, thanks. As long as you can drag windows, minimize, restore, and maximize, things should be working right.

[barracuda156]

Replying to ryandesign:

After fixing the use of ${os.arch} in r91697, quartz-wm builds and installs for me on PowerPC Leopard. How do I test whether the installed software works?

On Rosetta it builds, but then I get this:

Could not open /usr/lib/libgcc_s_ppc64.1.dylib: Error opening or reading file (referenced from /opt/local/lib/libquartz-wm-ds.1.dylib)
--->  Found 1 broken file, matching files to ports
--->  Found 1 broken port, determining rebuild order
You can always run 'port rev-upgrade' again to fix errors.
The following ports will be rebuilt: quartz-wm @1.3.2

​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65676