readline-6.1.000_1 configure failure

[harry.weppner@…]

Hi there,

readline upgrade fails during configure on PPC 10.5.8

DEBUG: Assembled command: 'cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_readline/work/readline-6.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-curses'
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_devel_readline/work/readline-6.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-curses " returned error 77
DEBUG: Backtrace: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_readline/work/readline-6.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-curses " returned error 77
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"

[harry.weppner@…]

readline log

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Attach the config.log please.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Are you setting build_arch to an empty string or something?

[harry.weppner@…]

no, not doing anything special here.

$ which arch
/usr/bin/arch

$ arch
ppc

Noticed that config.log shows /bin/arch but

$ ls /bin/arch
ls: /bin/arch: No such file or directory

[nox@…]

What does grep build_arch /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf say?

[harry.weppner@…]

It is indeed initialized there and it is slowly coming back that another port had required this to be initialized - I believe it was related to ticket ​http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20372.

# Extra environment variables to keep. Any variables listed here are added
# to the list of variables that are not removed from the environment used
# while processing ports
# extra_env                     KEEP_THIS THIS_TOO
build_arch              

Port installs fine with build_arch no longer initialized... Thanks!