Macvim Install fails

[rparvu@…]

Mac vim install fails on Snow Leopard:

Port command started with PID 1387
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
Computing dependencies for MacVim
Fetching MacVim
Attempting to fetch MacVim-7.3.snapshot57.zip from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/MacVim
Verifying checksum(s) for MacVim
Extracting MacVim
Applying patches to MacVim
Configuring MacVim
Building MacVim
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
Executing: /opt/local/bin/port install MacVim

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Please attach the error log, there is no information here to act on. What version of Macports are you running? Please use selfupdate to update to the latest version.

[rparvu@…]

Log

[rparvu@…]

selfupdate was performed but the installation of the macvim port still fails. I have attached the log file.

Thanks,

Radu

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

So the Xcode project is unconditionally trying to build some bits 3-way universal. I take it you're using Xcode 4?

[rparvu@…]

That is right: Xcode 4 is installed.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Apparently it is using /usr/bin/python from icons/Makefile to compile loadfont as a python module. The python shipped with Snow Leopard is a universal binary with 3 architectures, i386, x86_64 and ppc.

I will have to patch this to use our own python installation instead. Or just ship a pre-generated set of icons which would also solve #27813.

[rparvu@…]

Thanks. How can I find out when is the fix implemented? Radu

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Hopefully fixed in r78059.

I add python27 as a build dependency. It is used to build the icons instead of /usr/bin/python. This should solve this problem when using Xcode 4.