Hi,
After updating to the latest pkgsrc, I noticed today that pkgsrc was broken on my Mac running OS X 10.11. Specifically, it started refusing to install a package I had just build, claiming that the package was built for i386 while the system was x86_64. I am using pkgsrc in 64 bit mode, and the package was built properly a 64 bit package. However, it had somehow gotten labeled as 32 bit package and wouldn't install. (I had built the same package immediately before pulling the latest pkgsrc and it installed fine then.)
So, I started digging through the commit logs and found this change. (I am using the GIT mirror at git://
github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc.git, hence some GIT style output below.)
Author: jperkin <jperkin>
Date: Sun Jan 24 16:14:44 2016 +0000
Attempt to bring sanity to how ABI and MACHINE_ARCH are set.
Previously there were at least 5 different ways MACHINE_ARCH could be set,
some statically and some at run time, and in many cases these settings
differed, leading to issues at pkg_add time where there was conflict
between the setting encoded into the package and that used by pkg_install.
Instead, move to a single source of truth where the correct value based on
the host and the chosen (or default) ABI is determined in the bootstrap
script. The value can still be overridden in mk.conf if necessary, e.g.
for cross-compiling.
ABI is now set by default and if unset a default is calculated based on
MACHINE_ARCH. This fixes some OS, e.g. Linux, where the wrong default was
previously chosen.
As a result of the refactoring there is no need for LOWER_ARCH, with
references to it replaced by MACHINE_ARCH. SPARC_TARGET_ARCH is also
removed.
From there, I tracked the problem down to this Darwin specific change in mk/
bsd.prefs.mk:
.elif ${OPSYS} == "Darwin"
LOWER_OPSYS?= darwin
-.if empty(OS_VERSION:M[1-9].*.*)
-# Automatically select the ABI under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. We don't
-# use this at the moment because too many third party programs don't
-# work with it.
-#
-# _SYSCTL_HW_OPTIONAL_X86_64!= /usr/sbin/sysctl -n hw.optional.x86_64
-# . if ${_SYSCTL_HW_OPTIONAL_X86_64} == "1"
-# ABI= 64
-# .else
-# ABI= 32
-#. endif
-ABI= 32
-LOWER_ARCH.32= i386
-LOWER_ARCH.64= x86_64
-LOWER_ARCH= ${LOWER_ARCH.${ABI}}
-.else
-LOWER_ARCH!= ${UNAME} -p
-.endif
-MACHINE_ARCH= ${LOWER_ARCH}
-MAKEFLAGS+= LOWER_ARCH=${LOWER_ARCH:Q}
LOWER_OPSYS_VERSUFFIX= ${LOWER_OS_VERSION:C/([0-9]*).*/\1/}
LOWER_VENDOR?= apple
Specifically, it is the removal of "MACHINE_ARCH=${LOWER_ARCH}" that is causing the problems. I don't know pkgsrc internals well enough, but I am assuming that MACHINE_ARCH gets set to the output of "uname -p" by default, which is "i386" on Darwin, even on 64 bit machines. So, MACHINE_ARCH needs to be overridden for Darwin, otherwise it won't work.