On Jun 21, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > > On 2011-6-22 04:01 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: >> opendkim depends on libmilter which does not have a universal variant. >> >> Does this alone mean that I must/should add "universal_variant no" to my >> opendkim Portfile? > > Depends on how the dependency is used. If it's an architecture-specific > library that is linked against, which seems likely from the name in this > case, then yes, you should also disable universal in the dependent. > Otherwise users will just get an arch mismatch error when they try it.
it's probably linking with libmilter, so this is correct. > If the dependency just provided a command which was executed by the > dependent in a separate process, then the archs wouldn't need to match > and you could put it in depends_skip_archcheck and leave universal enabled. the best thing would probably be to provide a patch to enable universal for libmilter :) -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
