I have plenty of ports installed with +universal, but glitz is complaining: $ sudo port install glitz +universal Error: Error executing universal: Default universal variant only works with ports based on configure Error: Unable to execute port: Error evaluating variants But glitz _is_ based on configure. It's a perfectly normal, simple port. Debug output shows it's actually complaining about the XFree86 dependency: $ sudo port -dv install glitz +universal Password: DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/graphics/ glitz DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/ graphics/glitz DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port glitz. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port glitz. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port glitz. DEBUG: Executing variant universal provides universal DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/x11/XFree86 DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/ x11/XFree86 DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port XFree86. DEBUG: Executing variant universal provides universal DEBUG: Default universal variant only works with ports based on configure [snip] But I'm not even using XFree86; I'm using Apple's X11 quite happily. I tried "sudo port -n install glitz +universal" to try to Not follow dependencies, but it makes no difference. How do I get around this and install glitz +universal?