MacPorts Troubleshooting

This page contains some of the issues you might run into when using MacPorts on a PureDarwin system (or in a PureDarwin chroot). We also list pragmatic workarounds where possible. This page is mainly for reference via search engines, so we should always cite specific error messages here.

gcc42

Issue

No suitable m4 Workaround ln -s gm4 m4 Issue In file included from ../../gcc-4.2.4/gcc/tsystem.h:104,                  from ../../gcc-4.2.4/gcc/config/darwin-crt3.c:38: /usr/include/stdlib.h:283: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ’__OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPRECATED

Workaround

gtk2

Issue “needs” Xcode Workaround port edit gtk2, delete the whole section regarding Xcode Issue configure: error: no acceptable Java compiler found in $PATH Workaround Need to port edit db46, delete the line about java, port install db46 Now we can continue to build the rest of gtk2

python26

Issue In file included from Python/mactoolboxglue.c:27: Include/pymactoolbox.h:10:27: error: Carbon/Carbon.h: No such file or directory Include/pymactoolbox.h:13:33: error: QuickTime/QuickTime.h: No such file or directory Workaround Use patch provided by afb in MacPorts ticket #23122 Then you need to to the following so that subsequently installed Python modules are correctly found: mkdir -p /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib ln -s /opt/local//include/python2.6 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Headers mkdir -p /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/ ln -s /opt/local/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/ ln -s /opt/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ tiff ** ** Issue tiff “needs” Xcode Workaround port edit tiff, delete the line regarding Xcode The following might also be necessary: ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/defaults

dnsmasq

Issue make: yacc: Command not found Workaround Need to port install byacc ln -s /opt/local/bin/byacc /opt/local/bin/yacc But then, the dependency nawk fails to build due to missing dsymutil, hence we need to do: ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/dsymutil

subversion

Issue subversion wants to use Keychain, which is not available in PureDarwin ~~ ~~ Workaround port install subversion +disable_keychain ~~ ~~ ~~Suggested puredarwin variant, see MacPorts ~~#23304

dbus

Issue fails with “configure: error: launchd support explicitly enabled but not available” Workaround Install launch.h from the launchd binary root 

xorg-libxcb

Issue ImportError: No module named xcbgen.state Workaround Solved in python symlinking of site-packages above (see python26)

mesa

Issue

 directory

Workaround

We should write a puredarwin variant

xinit

Issue

DEBUG: Assembled command: ‘cd “/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_xinit/work/xinit-1.2.0” && /usr/bin/make -j2 all’ /usr/bin/make  all-recursive Making all in privileged_startx /usr/bin/make  all-am   CC     server.o   CC     client.o server.c:35:31: error: servers/bootstrap.h: No such file or directory

Workaround Install headers from launchd.root.tar.gz 

xorg-server

Issue IOKit portion (needed for Darwin) is missing

Workaround

glitz

Issue

Workaround port edit glitz, delete all lines regarding Xcode

db47

Issue checking if jikes works… configure: error: The Java compiler jikes failed

Workaround Edit the portfile so that it includes

variant puredarwin {  configure.args-delete   –enable-java  } 

curlftpfs

Issue Can’t be built since MacFUSE doesn’t build on PureDarwin due to being an Xcode project

Workaround Install MacFUSE from project’s pkg, edit portfile to remove dependency on MacFUSE

To be continued