defect: emacs 24.4_1 cannot be built on PPC Tiger and Leopard because it needs Clang 3.4 which cannot be built

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

See #44320. This must be a defect inside the Portfile, because

port info emacs

mentions only

Build Dependencies:   pkgconfig, texinfo
Library Dependencies: ncurses, libxml2

and no Clang. I have installed on PPC Mac OS X 10.5.8, Leopard:

port installed | egrep 'pkgconfig|texinfo|ncurses|libxml2|gcc|clang|llvm'
  cctools @806_3+llvm33 (active)
  clang-3.3 @3.3_5+analyzer+python27 (active)
  clang_select @1.0_0 (active)
  gcc48 @4.8.3_0
  gcc48 @4.8.3_1 (active)
  gcc49 @4.9.1_0 (active)
  gcc_select @0.1_8 (active)
  gccmakedep @1.0.3_0 (active)
  ld64 @97.17_3+llvm31 (active)
  libgcc @4.9.1_0
  libgcc @4.9.1_1 (active)
  libxml2 @2.9.2_1 (active)
  llvm-3.1 @3.1_8 (active)
  llvm-3.3 @3.3_4 (active)
  llvm-3.4 @3.4.2_0 (active)
  llvm_select @1.0_0 (active)
  ncurses @5.9_2 (active)
  pkgconfig @0.28_0 (active)
  py27-libxml2 @2.9.2_0 (active)
  texinfo @5.2_2 (active)

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

You meant ticket #44320 not revision 44320.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

What do you mean “it needs Clang”? What exactly happens when you try to install it?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Replying to larryv@…:

What do you mean “it needs Clang”? What exactly happens when you try to install it?

When I asked port to upgrade emacs it started to build first Clang 3.4. This is why I presumed that Clang 3.4 is set as compiler for GNU Emacs 24.4. But maybe I am wrong! When I now started to install a new variant of emacs to produce a main.log file port started to upgrade boost…

[chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez)]

Is this ticket still relevant, or can it be closed?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Replying to chrstphrchvz: No, it's not relevant. Clang 3.4 built some time. And meanwhile GNU Emacs is at version 27.1! So it can be closed.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Great, thanks for the update!