> On Jan 2, 2017, at 14:12, Adam Dershowitz <de...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > I am trying to get an existing set of ports into a new machine. > I ended up wiping /opt/local on the new machine, so I'm just using the > migration script and myports.txt. So it is a fresh macports install. > My problem seems to be that I had Xer installed on the old machine (2012 > MacBook pro with OS 10.11 ) as a dependant to something else. On the new > machine it keeps trying to put xer +universal. And that build fails. (I > create a ticket for the xer +universal build.) > But I would like to be able to get other ports working. Can anyone suggest > why it wants to install this port +universal variant, when the old machine > was not? > I can install the default variant, which grabs the binary. But, then when I > try to run the migration script it tries to upgrade to the other variant, > from source, and fails. > I did try removing the xer line from myports.txt but it didn't help (the line > just had the default variant) >
I don't see a port "xer"; I assume you mean "xar". I guess you're trying to install a port that depends on xar. llvm-3.9 depends on xar, and cctools and ld64 depend on llvm-3.9. Maybe you're trying to install one of those with the universal variant.
