Can I do this with a local portfile?

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> On 1 Apr 2022, at 11:53 pm, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 1, 2022, at 04:32, Peter West wrote:
> 
>> On 1 Apr 2022, at 7:22 pm, Peter West wrote:
>>> 
>>> I just tried to install kmymoney4 on my M1 running 12.2.1. MacPorts spat 
>>> the dummy with
>>> 
>>> Error: Cannot install kmymoney4 for the arch 'arm64' because
>>> Error: its dependency qt4-mac only supports the archs 'ppc ppc64 i386 
>>> x86_64’.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is it possible for me to install this somehow?
>>> 
>>> Should I file a ticket for this?
>> 
>> My Xcode version is 13.3. #61789 was closed as fixed 8 months ago.
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61789#comment:6 says "qt4-mac is old enough 
> that my best guess is it'll take significant work to get it working on 
> ARM64". Therefore #61789 was fixed by making the qt4-mac port indicate that 
> it does not support the arm64 architecture, and thus if you try to install it 
> on an Apple Silicon Mac, MacPorts should install it for the x86_64 
> architecture instead and it will run in emulation via Rosetta 2.
> 
> However, kmymoney4 and probably most other ports that depend on qt4-mac do 
> not similarly indicate that they do not support arm64, therefore MacPorts 
> tries to install them and their dependencies (including qt4-mac) for arm64, 
> which as we know doesn't work.
> 
> The kmymoney4 portfile does include the kde4 portgroup which in turn includes 
> the qt4 portgroup. The qt4 portgroup seems like a great place to set 
> supported_archs to indicate non-support of arm64.
> 

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