Building of blackbox fails, maybe related to libiconv

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

checking for sed... sed
checking for gencat... gencat
checking for iconv_open... no
checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
configure: error: Blackbox requires iconv(3) support.
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_blackbox/work/blackbox-0.70.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-dependency-tracking --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --x-includes=/opt/local/include --x-libraries=/opt/local/lib " returned error 1
Command output: checking if /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no

I've chosen the "universal" variant, which fails this incomprehensible way, but it is the same with the "darwin_7" variant (how can I retrieve details on the differences between the two variants?). Libiconv is installed:

 port list installed | egrep 'xorg-libXext|Xft2|expat|libiconv'
tclsh(63077,0xa0b1c820) malloc: Could not open , using stderr
expat                          @2.0.1          textproc/expat
libiconv                       @1.13           textproc/libiconv
Xft2                           @2.1.14         x11/Xft2
xorg-libXext                   @1.1.1          x11/xorg-libXext

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Running "port list installed" does not tell us anything useful about your setup. That tells you the latest version available, but not what you have installed. Instead run the following:

port installed xorg-libXext Xft2 expat libiconv

What version of Mac OS X and Xcode are you running?

FYI, it is not clear but darwin_7 is a platform variant and should never be explicitly selected.

blackbox installed fine for me on 10.6.2 but without the universal variant. Can you try that?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Are all of the dependencies installed with +universal?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Maybe it's Porticus which is fooling me! On the command line building of blackbox succeeded, Leopard, 10.5.8. The output of the port command is:

expat @2.0.1_0 (active) libiconv @1.13_0 (active) Xft2 @2.1.14_0 (active) xorg-libXext @1.1.1_0 (active)

I did not choose any "qualifiers" for a particular variant. I think the command line is my tool – and an option to save some disk space!

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

I never chose any variant when I started to install xorg-server-devel and all packages it depends on. It must have been Porticus opening that "chooser" which made my make that mistake – for the last time.