irsim: error: expected a platform name, e.g., 'macosx'

[rupapara.prashant@…]

sudo port install irsim configure.compiler=llvm-gcc-4.2 works.... so perhaps you need to change compiler option in portfile.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The error I see in the log you attached is:

error: expected a platform name, e.g., 'macosx'

I just fixed this problem in magic recently so hopefully the fix I applied there can be used for irsim as well. The problem is that a #define "macosx" is being set by the project, and this conflicts with directives in the system headers on at least Mountain Lion. The fix is to remove the custom macosx #define and to use the __APPLE__ #define Apple already provides.

I can confirm that using llvm-gcc-4.2 works around the problem but I'm surprised that works. I think we should not employ that workaround in the port; instead we should patch the software just as I patched magic already, and submit that patch to the developers.

First we should update irsim to the latest version. I just fixed the livecheck.

We should also apply additional patches to irsim that are already in the magic port, including removing "-I/sw/include" from the build system.

[rupapara.prashant@…]

Hey, Have you applied changes to portfile?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

No, I have not yet had a chance to look into it.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Andrea, the main thing we need to do is take the fix from r97859 and port it to irsim. Do you want to look into it or should I?

[anddam (Andrea D'Amore)]

I will, the macro is only checked in base/mem.c .

The issue seems mountainlion-specific since I cannot reproduce on 10.7 with xcode 4.4.1, furthermore from the reporter's main log it seems configure script is not finding X libraries.

[anddam (Andrea D'Amore)]

Committed r97986, disabled macosx definition on 10.8 and removed /sw.