Confusing message when attempting to use +universal with the macOS 10.14 SDK

[idirect3d]

Error: wine cannot be installed for the configured universal_archs 'x86_64 i386' because it only supports the arch(s) 'i386 x86_64'.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port wine failed

[idirect3d]

'x86_64 i386' != 'i386 x86_64' ?

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please use WikiFormatting, fill in the Port field and add the port maintainer(s) to Cc (port info --maintainers wine), if any.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I have not seen that error message before. Perhaps it relates to changes made in MacPorts 2.5.4; Josh?

Can you attach the main.log please?

What macOS version are you running on?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The explaining messages probably need to be improved, as the failure is a result of the SDK being used, not the port's supported_archs.

[idirect3d]

Replying to mf2k:

In the future, please use WikiFormatting, fill in the Port field and add the port maintainer(s) to Cc (port info --maintainers wine), if any.

sorry, I will try my best in the future.

[idirect3d]

Replying to jmroot:

The explaining messages probably need to be improved, as the failure is a result of the SDK being used, not the port's supported_archs.

I get same message on 2 macbooks after I upgrade them to Mojave and MacPorts 2.5.4. Xcode version is 10.0 (10A255), xcode-select --install and xcodebuild -license has bean executed.

uname -a
Darwin localhost 18.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.0.0: Wed Aug 22 20:13:40 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4903.201.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

xcodebuild -showsdks
iOS SDKs:
	iOS 12.0                      	-sdk iphoneos12.0

iOS Simulator SDKs:
	Simulator - iOS 12.0          	-sdk iphonesimulator12.0

macOS SDKs:
	macOS 10.14                   	-sdk macosx10.14

tvOS SDKs:
	tvOS 12.0                     	-sdk appletvos12.0

tvOS Simulator SDKs:
	Simulator - tvOS 12.0         	-sdk appletvsimulator12.0

watchOS SDKs:
	watchOS 5.0                   	-sdk watchos5.0

watchOS Simulator SDKs:
	Simulator - watchOS 5.0       	-sdk watchsimulator5.0

I hope this will help you

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to idirect3d:

I get same message on 2 macbooks after I upgrade them to Mojave and MacPorts 2.5.4.

Ok. It's definitely impossible to build wine on Mojave right now. See #56991 and ​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2018-September/045704.html and ​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-September/039395.html.

I had put an error message into the wine ports to alert users to this problem, but apparently the new error message in MacPorts 2.5.4 has superseded the ports' error message.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The message would probably be less confusing if wine didn't default to +universal on 10.14.

[idirect3d]

Replying to ryandesign:

Replying to idirect3d:

I get same message on 2 macbooks after I upgrade them to Mojave and MacPorts 2.5.4.

Ok. It's definitely impossible to build wine on Mojave right now. See #56991 and ​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2018-September/045704.html and ​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-September/039395.html.

I had put an error message into the wine ports to alert users to this problem, but apparently the new error message in MacPorts 2.5.4 has superseded the ports' error message.

I think I know what is the problem. Unfortunately i can't use ports to build wine now. but it's still good software apparently. Thank you and your team for what you have done.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 0d0f97e38103daa643340755a095e706d5f19376/macports-ports (master):

wine*: don't default to +universal on Mojave

See: #57245

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to ryandesign:

Ok. It's definitely impossible to build wine on Mojave right now. See #56991

Since we already have that ticket for not being able to build wine, let's make this one about improving the message printed by base.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 918c34729bb3b4f33c822cec384f86b8c6d99a54/macports-base (master):

Improve explanations in check_supported_archs

Fixes: #57245

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

With the above commit, you now get this:

% sudo port install wine +universal
Password:
Error: wine cannot be installed for the configured universal_archs 'i386 x86_64' because the arch(s) 'i386' are not supported.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

This comment is informative in case others run into the situation I did. AFAICS no action is needed by MacPorts on my report.

In #57369 "gperf: Cannot be installed +universal on Mojave", ryandesign gives this list:

Don't specify +universal on the command line, or in variants.conf, or in myports.txt as part of migration. 

There's some other possibility (I have none of the above as far as I can tell). I did have ~/myports (no extension). I'm not sure if port picked that up (there are many +universal in there, but only ncurses got the error of 150 outdated ports; of course many don't have executables or libraries in them).

It was sufficient to uninstall ncurses, clean --all ncurses (don't know why that was necessary), and reinstall ncurses with variant -universal (don't know if that is necessary).