php5-imap build fails when build_arch is changed

[tianseng@…]

>>sudo port install php5-imap
--->  Computing dependencies for php5-imap
--->  Configuring php5-imap
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for php5-imap is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_php_php5-imap/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I'm attaching the log file

[tianseng@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please use WikiFormatting.

You don't need to Cc yourself.

Please do Cc the port's maintainer (that's me).

The relevant lines in the log seem to be:

:info:configure checking whether build with IMAP works... no
:info:configure configure: error: build test failed. Please check the config.log for details.

Could you please attach the config.log? It should be somewhere inside the directory identified by the command port work php5-imap

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, the interesting thing in the config.log is:

ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)

For what architecture was /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a built, if not for i386? You can find out with:

lipo -info /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a

And why are you building php5-imap for i386? Does your computer only support i386 (i.e. has an Intel Core (and not Core 2) processor), or have you deliberately switched build_arch to i386 in macports.conf?

[tianseng@…]

I deliberately changed build_arch to i386 since i needed python27 & MySQL to be built for i386 due to compatibility issues with MySQLdb.

$ lipo -info /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a
input file /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a is not a fat file
Non-fat file: /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a is architecture: x86_64

Is there a way for me to build php5 and its extensions for x64 ? Thanks for your help so far.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to tianseng@…:

I deliberately changed build_arch to i386 since i needed python27 & MySQL to be built for i386 due to compatibility issues with MySQLdb.

$ lipo -info /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a
input file /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a is not a fat file
Non-fat file: /opt/local/lib/libc-client4.a is architecture: x86_64

Ok, that explains it. cclient was built for x86_64, so logically php5-imap cannot be built for i386 against that. Also, cclient does not currently support having its build_arch changed; I filed #27867 for that. You won't be able to rebuild cclient for i386 until that's fixed.

Is there a way for me to build php5 and its extensions for x64 ?

To do that, you would set build_arch back to x86_64 in macports.conf.

Could you elaborate on why you wanted to change build_arch to i386? I'm not aware of any problems running MySQL on x86_64; it seems to work fine for me.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

cclient does not currently support having its build_arch changed; I filed #27867 for that. You won't be able to rebuild cclient for i386 until that's fixed.

Fixed this, so you could now rebuild cclient for i386 and thus then build php5-imap for i386:

sudo port clean cclient
sudo port -n upgrade --force cclient

[tianseng@…]

thank you! that worked

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Then we shall call it fixed! :)