Re: change a path

On Feb 20, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Dan Neville <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>> Does anyone know how to fix this:
>>
>> I am trying to install a couple of modules PerlMagick for one.  The  
>> error I
>> keep getting on all three of them is:
>>
>> lipo: can't open input file:
>> /var/folders/LH/LHR2wOKBHPif1NtQky7mbZorFD2/-Tmp-//ccrI61Hv.out (No  
>> such
>> file or directory)
>> make: *** [Magick.o] Error 1
>
>
> The default Perl is configured to build XS modules as universal  
> binaries,
> but a library you're linking against (probably ImageMagick) is not  
> built as
> a UB. This error is lipo complaining that one of the two binary  
> components
> it's trying to assemble into a universal binary is missing, because it
> failed to build.
>
> You should have gotten an earlier compiler error telling you where the
> original failure was - the above is the last error. It's *far* more  
> useful
> to trace errors from first to last, since later errors can be the  
> extended
> result of earlier ones.
>
> You could edit
> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Config.pm to  
> remove
> the "-arch i386" and "-arch ppc" directives from the compiler and  
> linker
> flags. Your modules will only be built for the native the  
> architecture of
> the system you're using if you do that, but if they're only going to  
> be used
> on that system, or on other systems just like it, that won't matter.

***No***, don't modify Config_heavy.pl (or any other file in /System)  
manually.  Use the ARCHFLAGS environment variable instead.  See:

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/OpenSource/PerlExtensionsRelNotes/

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