Opened 4 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#61695 closed defect (wontfix)

xattr on BigSur fails - requires 'x86_64' arch

Reported by: ryrrah Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.6.4
Keywords: Cc:
Port: xattr

Description (last modified by mf2k (Frank Schima))

I've reinstalled MacPorts on BigSur. As I have tried to reinstall the ports I had before, including tellico, xattr, which is one of the dependencies, won't install.

Here's the error message:

Error: xattr cannot be installed for the configured build_arch 'x86_64' because it only supports the arch(s) 'i386 ppc'.

I'm not a programmer, so I don't have any idea how to deal with this. Can someone help?

Thanks.

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by kencu (Ken)

every system except MacOSX 10.4 Tiger should already have a /usr/bin/xattr binary from Apple.

You can check to make sure you have it as well... now -- the error would seem to be that something is asking for it to be installed on Big Sur.

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by kencu (Ken)

tellico doesn't have a direct requirement for xattr listed.

can you see what is calling for it? port rdeps is usually your friend for this question.

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Keywords: xattr x86_64 removed

comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

In the future, please use WikiFormatting.

comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Description: modified (diff)

comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

As Ken said, /usr/bin/xattr is part of the operating system on Mac OS X 10.5 and later so you don't need the xattr port except on 10.4.

As far as I can tell, the only port in MacPorts that depends on xattr is libtool, and it only causes the xattr port to be installed if /usr/bin/xattr does not exist.

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