BUG: cyrus-imapd fails to build on Intel Mac

[hydrometeor@…]

I was unable to get cyrus-imapd to build on Mac OS X 10.4.5 on Intel. The resul t is below. Strangely, the net-snmp port appears to have installed successfully on the same platform despite the warning message.

port install cyrus-imapd:

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net-snmp 5.3 fails to build on darwin 8 (Mac OS X 10.4)
due to 'host/hr_storage.c:764: error: duplicate case value',
feel free to help investigate.
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--->  Unpacking tgz archive for net-snmp 5.3_0
--->  Installing net-snmp 5.3_0
--->  Cleaning net-snmp
--->  Fetching cyrus-imapd
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for cyrus-imapd
--->  Extracting cyrus-imapd
--->  Applying patches to cyrus-imapd
--->  Configuring cyrus-imapd
Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: configure failure: shell command "cd "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_mail_cyrus-imapd/work/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --sysconfdir=/opt/local/etc/cyrus --with-cyrus-prefix=/opt/local --with-pidfile=/opt/local/var/run/cyrus-master.pid --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/include/db4 --with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/lib --with-perl=/opt/local/bin/perl --with-sasl=/opt/local --with-openssl=/opt/local --with-cyrus-user=cyrus --with-cyrus-group=mail --with-auth=unix --enable-listext --enable-cmulocal --enable-netscapehack" returned error 1
Command output: checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[mww@…]

does adding

platform i386 { configure.args-append --build=i386 }

help?

[opendarwin@…]

I had the same problem, and found this page while searching.

I tried the suggested "--build=is86" and it helped, but then failed later with:

imapopts.h:181: error: array type has incomplete element type

That is caused by gcc 4.x There is a patch available here:

​https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2692

[jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)]

port(1) output should be formatted within a code block (cf. WikiFormatting).

-jmpp

[markd@…]

Updated to 2.3.8. This now works on Intel without snmp support.

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