Julius 4.2.3 fails to upgrade non-universal to universal on 10.6

[Raptor007 (Raptor007)]

It looks like julius is searching /opt/local/lib for libjulius.a and libsent.a instead of just using the freshly-built copies; these libs are part of the julius port. This means if you try to upgrade from a non-universal build to universal, it fails to link for other architectures.

:info:build /usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 -O2 -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -I. -I../libjulius/include -I../libsent/include -I/opt/local/include `../libsent/libsent-config --cflags` `../libjulius/libjulius-config --cflags` -o julius main.o recogloop.o module.o output_module.o output_stdout.o output_file.o record.o charconv.o c
:info:build ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/local/lib/libjulius.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/local/lib/libsent.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
:info:build   "_j_put_version", referenced from:
:info:build       _main in main.o
...
:info:build ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386

I was able to solve this by simply removing /opt/local/lib/libjulius.a and /opt/local/lib/libsent.a, but surely the build process shouldn't be looking in /opt/local/lib for libs that are included in this port?

[Raptor007 (Raptor007)]

Main log when upgrading julius from non-universal to universal.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Agreed. The -L flags are probably in the wrong order in the Makefile somewhere.

[kencu (Ken)]

Five years, no fix. Only happens upgrading from non-universal to universal. Too esoteric. Nobody will ever fix this. Please reopen if this is still an issue.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It does not only affect universal builds. The fact that the MacPorts library path appears before project-local library paths is a build system bug that can cause all sorts of build problems, and we should fix it.

[kencu (Ken)]

OK, I built it cleanly +universal on 10.6 without hiccup, as a data point. It also builds cleanly as -universal.

But I didn't try building it -universal then upgrading to +universal, which is I believe the esoteric case where the build fails.