-mmacosx-version-min= should be appended to CFLAGS with universal variants on PPC

[gui-dos (Guido Soranzio)]

While compiling the first universal variants on Leopard 10.5.2 PPC using the latest MacPorts 1.7.0 from trunk, I found that several ports (zlib, jpeg) can't be linked correctly.

When "gcc -dynamiclib" is used, LDFLAGS isn't evaluated, but appending -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 to CFLAGS seems to solve the issue.

Instead of adding "configure.universal_cflags-append -mmacosx-version-min=10.4" to these ports, perhaps the proc configure_get_universal_cflags could be modified in order to append "-mmacosx-version-min=10.4" to the returned flags.

[afb@…]

Or we could change +universal back to use the 10.5 SDK, cross-compiling is so much hassle...

[afb@…]

Fixed, r34317.

[illogical1@…]

Replying to afb@…:

Fixed, r34317.

But if someone wants to use the 10.4u sdk on 10.5 it breaks again so... reopen?

Is there a way in macports to test the sdk being used. I'm thinking of something along the lines of [sdkroot_isset 10.4u.sdk] and then adding "configure.universal_cflags-append -mmacosx-version-min=10.4" in that case.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I don't understand, aren't universal_target and universal_sysroot already independent variables?

[illogic-al@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

I don't understand, aren't universal_target and universal_sysroot already independent variables?

Not that I know of. I don't see either of these in the portconfigure.tcl file (macports 1.6)

[mark.baas123@…]

I have done attempts to build a universal gtk and the binaries were not compatible with tiger. I found out that macports defaults to build with 10.5sdk when it is installed, altough in the guide it says that you can define the universal_sysroot. After forcing to 10.4u.sdk, it still doesn't work, because of linking with -lcrt10.5.o. Then adding -mmacosx-version-min the problem is gone. So I think it is clear that this flag should be added to universal_cflags and universal_cxxflags.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to illogic-al@…:

I don't see either of these in the portconfigure.tcl file (macports 1.6)

None of this stuff is available in 1.6. Check trunk: source:trunk/base/src/port1.0/portconfigure.tcl#L212​

This looks fixed to me.

[illogic-al@…]

Replying to mark.baas123@…:

I have done attempts to build a universal gtk and the binaries were not compatible with tiger. I found out that macports defaults to build with 10.5sdk when it is installed, altough in the guide it says that you can define the universal_sysroot. After forcing to 10.4u.sdk, it still doesn't work, because of linking with -lcrt10.5.o. Then adding -mmacosx-version-min the problem is gone. So I think it is clear that this flag should be added to universal_cflags and universal_cxxflags.

If universal_sysroot = 10.4u.sdk

[illogic-al@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

Replying to illogic-al@…:

I don't see either of these in the portconfigure.tcl file (macports 1.6)

None of this stuff is available in 1.6. Check trunk: source:trunk/base/src/port1.0/portconfigure.tcl#L212​

This looks fixed to me.

That's great, but it doesn't deal with the current macports release. What are users to do about this for 1.6 (granted, the number of people who would attempt this is presumably, quite small)?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to illogic-al@…:

That's great, but it doesn't deal with the current macports release. What are users to do about this for 1.6 (granted, the number of people who would attempt this is presumably, quite small)?

I'm not sure what you're looking for here. Yes, 1.6 is broken. 1.7 will be fixed. If you really need this to work right now, you can install from svn, or you can edit your local portconfigure.tcl.

[illogic-al@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

Replying to illogic-al@…:

That's great, but it doesn't deal with the current macports release. What are users to do about this for 1.6 (granted, the number of people who would attempt this is presumably, quite small)?

I'm not sure what you're looking for here. Yes, 1.6 is broken. 1.7 will be fixed. If you really need this to work right now, you can install from svn, or you can edit your local portconfigure.tcl.

I'm looking for a way to fix 1.6 now for users that doesn't require them to edit portconfigure.tcl themselves. Isn't there something like a 1.6 branch where changes can be checked in for just macports 1.6? I'm assuming that's the reason for port selfupdate.

[tobypeterson]

Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted

[illogic-al@…]

This is marked as fixed, is it?

[afb@…]

It was fixed earlier, then removed in r46451.

[illogic-al@…]

Any chance we could add this back. I'm on an intel machine, and hit this bug multiple times w/ 1.6.0 when trying to compile 10.4 universal programs. I can try again with 1.7.0, but I don't see why there would be a change now (as 10.5 specifically needs this flag) despite what gcc -v is saying.

[illogic-al@…]

Replying to illogic-al@…:

Any chance we could add this back. I'm on an intel machine, and hit this bug multiple times w/ 1.6.0 when trying to compile 10.4 universal programs. I can try again with 1.7.0, but I don't see why there would be a change now (as 10.5 specifically needs this flag) despite what gcc -v is saying.

I should point out that I'm compiling 10.4 universal binaries, on 10.5, which is why this flag is needed. The environment variable (setting the sdk) does not get respected in all places/source code.

[illogic-al@…]

Updated to 1.7.1 yesterday and started recompiling everything. thus far things are problem free with all pre-kde4 ports. I've noticed differences in how some universal ports are building so changes may have been implemented to fix this without needing that patch which was removed (unless it made it into 1.7.1)

[tobypeterson]

Probably the change to always set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET - this was not consistently done in 1.6

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Yeah, MDT has the same effect. Please don't report bugs against 1.6...