python25 "not a valid ppc64 mach-o file" error while trying to install gimp

[Fred Brown Althot]

The only +universal I used was on python25 itself after the GIMP  
install first started giving me that error, and I think it resulted  
in the same error again. That's when I gave the "maybe it checks for  
dependencies independently of installing them" chance a try with  
the .mpkg, and as you said, that was futile.



On 25-Oct-07, at 3:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 14:24, Fred Brown Althot wrote:
>
>> On 25-Oct-07, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2007, at 12:57, Fred Brown Althot wrote:
>>>
>>>> When trying to install the GIMP, I get this little nasty:
>>>>
>>>>> freds-computer:~ fred$ sudo port install -f gimp-app
>>>>> Password:
>>>>> --->  Building python25 with target all
>>>>> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/ 
>>>>> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>>>>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_l 
>>>>> ang_python25/work/Python-2.5.1" && make all " returned error 2
>>>>> Command output: libtool -o libpython2.5.dylib -dynamic  \
>>>>>         -all_load libpython2.5.a -single_module \
>>>>>         -install_name /opt/local/lib/libpython2.5.dylib \
>>>>>         -compatibility_version 2.5 \
>>>>>         -current_version 2.5 -lSystem -lSystemStubs -L/opt/ 
>>>>> local/lib
>>>>> ld64 failed: in libpython2.5.a(__.SYMDEF), not a valid ppc64  
>>>>> mach-o file
>>>>> libtool: internal link edit command failed
>>>>> make: *** [libpython2.5.dylib] Error 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp2 py25- 
>>>>> gtk py25-cairo py25-numeric python25 py25-gobject
>>>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>>
>>>> Now, I tried installing python 2.5 independently with a package,  
>>>> that seemed to work fine, but I still get the same error (I was  
>>>> hoping it would detect the installed dependency and move on, but  
>>>> alas, it does not).
>>>>
>>>> Any help overcoming this setback would be greatly appreciated,  
>>>> because I'm running out of ideas right now.
>>>
>>> You are presumably on a 64-bit PowerPC machine, as in a G5? What  
>>> version of Mac OS X, Xcode and MacPorts are you using?
>>
>> Actually, I'm on an Intel mac.
>> Sorry, should have mentioned that from the start.
>> Intel Mac, OS X 10.4
>> Using the latest version of macports.
>>
>> After running into this problem, I tried installing the universal  
>> macpython 2.5.1 with the .mpkg, ran port install again, same problem.
>
> MacPorts is designed to use its own software only, not any software  
> you've installed manually outside of MacPorts. There are some  
> carefully-chosed exceptions, but I don't think python is one of them.
>
> So if you're not on a 64-bit PowerPC machine, I wonder why it's  
> complaining that something is not a valid ppc64 mach-o file. Are  
> any of your ports compiled universally? (Did you say "sudo port  
> install foo +universal" for any foo?)
>