oracle-instantclient: not available on ppc machines

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

It looks like oracle-instantclient is set up to pull v10 libs on ppc, but macports doesn't like something about how it is configured.

% uname -p
powerpc
% port info oracle-instantclient
Error: Port oracle-instantclient not found

vs.

% uname -p
i386
% port info oracle-instantclient
oracle-instantclient @11.2.0.3.0 (databases)
Variants:             universal

Description:          Oracle Instant Client allows you to run your applications
                      without installing the standard Oracle client or having an
                      ORACLE_HOME.
Homepage:             http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/

Extract Dependencies: unzip
Platforms:            macosx
License:              unknown
Maintainers:          ryandesign@macports.org

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

(updated summary, since a quick grep does show the port in the portindex on my ppc box)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I made sure that everything still worked on PowerPC before I committed this update. Not sure what went wrong in your case.

On your PowerPC machine where oracle-instantclient doesn't exist, please try:

cd $(port dir MacPorts)/../../databases/oracle-instantclient && port info

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

No wait, I see.... it's not in the server's portindex, or else it would have appeared here: ​http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=oracle

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Let's see if r104771 helps.

[wsiegrist@…]

Ryan, your search on the website was for "category" of "oracle", but that port only has the "databases" category. Searching by name works for me: ​http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=oracle

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This problem no longer exists.

$ uname -p
powerpc
$ port info oracle-instantclient
oracle-instantclient @10.1.0.3_1 (databases)

Description:          Oracle Instant Client allows you to run your
                      applications without installing the standard
                      Oracle client or having an ORACLE_HOME.
Homepage:             http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/

Extract Dependencies: unzip
Platforms:            macosx
License:              unknown
Maintainers:          ryandesign@macports.org