Re: How to install wine on Darwin-*-amd64 (multiarch/universal support)

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-05-23 at 21:45 BST, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> When trying to install wine in pkgsrc bootstrapped on Darwin amd64, it
> fails with the following message:
> 
> ----------8<----------
> 
> $ cd $HOME/pkgsrc/emulators/wine
> $ time bmake install
> ERROR: This package is only available for these platforms: *-*-i386.
> ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
> ERROR: wine-1.6.2nb2 is not available for Darwin-13.2.0-x86_64
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /Users/dxy/pkgsrc/emulators/wine
> 
> ----------8<----------
> 
> I wonder whether there is a way to workaround this restriction. Is
> there a way to enable universal binary support on Darwin or force
> build i386 port which it obviously supports?

Universal binary support is possible, but is a reasonable amount of
work up-front.  At Joyent we have developed multiarch support using an
isaexec wrapper, Darwin support could build upon that but use lipo
instead to combine the two builds.

If you're interested, see the joyent/feature/multiarch/trunk branch in
our Git repository at https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc.

In any case, based on the most recent bulk build on Darwin, wine fails
for 32-bit anyway:

  
http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/pkgsrc/public/reports/Darwin/2014Q1/i386/20140414.0816/wine-1.6.2nb1/build.log

so there will be some work required either way.

Cheers,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com