On Monday June 13 2022 04:34:46 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >The standard universal variant has no content. (Universal support is >implemented by adding the return value of procedures like >[get_canonical_archflags cc] to CFLAGS.) Many ports implement their own >universal variant by manually creating this empty universal variant ("variant >universal {}") and using get_canonical_archflags where needed.
Bummer, looks like "base" is trying to be too smart: the manually created variant is removed after the Portfile has been parsed, "due to < 2 supported universal_archs". R