On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:33, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Monday June 13 2022 04:34:46 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> The standard universal variant has no content. (Universal support is
>> implemented by adding the return value of procedures like
>> [get_canonical_archflags cc] to CFLAGS.) Many ports implement their own
>> universal variant by manually creating this empty universal variant
>> ("variant universal {}") and using get_canonical_archflags where needed.
>
> Bummer, looks like "base" is trying to be too smart: the manually created
> variant is removed after the Portfile has been parsed, "due to < 2 supported
> universal_archs".
Base is exactly smart enough. When supported_archs contains only 1 arch, it
does make sense to offer a universal variant, therefore base prevents it.
