On Apr 1, 2022, at 09:42, Peter West wrote:
> On 1 Apr 2022, at 11:53 pm, Ryan Schmidt 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.
>
> Can I do this with a local portfile?
Sure. To test whether this works, you could add the line
supported_archs ppc ppc64 i386 x86_64
to the kmymoney4 portfile.
