Hi everyone, I am trying to get gtk2 to compile as universal in MacPorts. The final goal is to compile a program (Inkscape) against universal libraries, so that the application itself is universal. When trying to install gtk2 +universal I get this error message: $ sudo port -d install gtk2 +universal [snip] DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local-univ/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/textproc/docbook-xsl DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local-univ/var/macports/ sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/textproc/docbook-xsl DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port docbook-xsl. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port docbook-xsl. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port docbook-xsl. DEBUG: Executing variant universal provides universal DEBUG: Default universal variant only works with ports based on configure while executing "variant-universal" invoked from within "catch "variant-${name}" result" Error: Error executing universal: Default universal variant only works with ports based on configure DEBUG: Error evaluating variants while executing "error "Error evaluating variants"" (procedure "mportopen" line 51) invoked from within "mportopen $porturl $options $variations" (procedure "mportdepends" line 62) invoked from within "mportdepends $subport "" $recurseDeps $skipSatisfied $accDeps" (procedure "mportdepends" line 87) invoked from within "mportdepends $mport $target" (procedure "mportexec" line 21) invoked from within "mportexec $workername $target" Error: Unable to execute port: Error evaluating variants docbook-xsl is required by gtk-doc on which gtk2 build-depends. So my question is two fold: - first, in a situation like this, the objective is to get gtk2 to be universal. so all the lib-depends should also be universal, but, ideally, if the universal variant of a build-depend port is not available, it should just be built non universally since it won't have any influence on the "universality" of gtk2 in the end (as far as I understand these matters). I guess this situation may be quit common and not restricted to gtk at all so is there a general rule here? - then, about this particular problem, what is the recommended course of action, if any? I could install all dependencies of GTK manually as universal and then build gtk2 +universal with the -n option so that it does not check for docbook-xsl... but that's quite a pain. I remarked that perl5.8 for example, which is also required by gtk-doc, is silently built as non universal because it has the universal_variant property set to "no". Should I do the same with docbook-xsl (and probably all docbook ports which are just interpreted files) and provide a patch? Thanks in advance for your help. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/