Opened 11 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#40814 closed defect (worksforme)

cmake configure failure (subdirectories with symlinks?)

Reported by: frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.2.0
Keywords: Cc: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt), mkae (Marko Käning)
Port: cmake

Description

Tried to install cmake; got the attached main.log. Thanks in advance.

Attachments (2)

main.log (200.0 KB) - added by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood) 11 years ago.
main.log
CmakeCache.txt (25.7 KB) - added by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood) 11 years ago.

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Change History (13)

Changed 11 years ago by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood)

Attachment: main.log added

main.log

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

What is /Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie?
What is /Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie?
One of these is presumably your MacPorts prefix? What's the other?

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 11 years ago by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood)

Replying to ryandesign@…:

What is /Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie?
What is /Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie?
One of these is presumably your MacPorts prefix? What's the other?

And we have uncovered the reason I usually do replacement when posting main.log. I can't win; if I replace them, people get confused, and if I don't, it's also confusing.

So this machine runs osx server. The server believes itself to be osxserver.b-aassoc.edu. So those two directories are one and the same due to the magic of symlinks (osxserver.b-aassoc.edu -> /) because of how server sets itself up.

The longer of the two is my prefix.

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… added; css@… removed
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to css@…

Well I'm glad you didn't anonymize this portion of the log because it's undoubtedly part of the problem, given this error in the log:

:info:configure   directory
:info:configure   "/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie/var/macports/build/_Volumes_ServerDrive_NetUsers_robbie_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_cmake/cmake/work/cmake-2.8.12/Utilities/KWIML"
:info:configure   is not a subdirectory of
:info:configure   "/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Network/Servers/osxserver.b-aassoc.edu/Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie/var/macports/build/_Volumes_ServerDrive_NetUsers_robbie_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_cmake/cmake/work/cmake-2.8.12".

I don't know why the symlinked portion of the path seems to be repeated multiple times there. But I do recall that configuring MacPorts with a prefix that contains symlinks causes problems. So you should configure the MacPorts prefix to be the correct real resolved path on disk. So if the prefix should be a folder "robbie" in a folder "NetUsers" on a secondary drive called "ServerDrive" then configure MacPorts with "--prefix=/Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie". If ServerDrive is the primary drive, i.e. "/", then configure with "--prefix=/NetUsers/robbie".

comment:4 in reply to:  3 Changed 11 years ago by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood)

Replying to ryandesign@…:

I don't know why the symlinked portion of the path seems to be repeated multiple times there. But I do recall that configuring MacPorts with a prefix that contains symlinks causes problems. So you should configure the MacPorts prefix to be the correct real resolved path on disk. So if the prefix should be a folder "robbie" in a folder "NetUsers" on a secondary drive called "ServerDrive" then configure MacPorts with "--prefix=/Volumes/ServerDrive/NetUsers/robbie". If ServerDrive is the primary drive, i.e. "/", then configure with "--prefix=/NetUsers/robbie".

I don't know why either, but it's fairly consistent about showing up multiple times between different ports. At a guess, it's because my home directory is set to include the symlink because that is how OSX Server sets things up.

This machine is in-use, so rebuilding macports and everything that it has installed is not an option. This symlink has not caused problems in the past (with the exception of #39864 which was fixed), so I believe this is a soluble problem.

Last edited 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) (previous) (diff)

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Ah, if just cmake is failing, and many other ports have worked, that points the blame at cmake. I'd report the problem to the cmake developers, since we're just using their build system, nothing special.

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Summary: cmake configure faulure (subdirectories with symlinks?)cmake configure failure (subdirectories with symlinks?)

comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by cssdev

Can you provide your CMakeCache.txt from the cake build directory?

Changed 11 years ago by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood)

Attachment: CmakeCache.txt added

comment:8 in reply to:  7 Changed 11 years ago by frozencemetery (Robbie Harwood)

Replying to css@…:

Can you provide your CMakeCache.txt from the cake build directory?

Apologies for the delay. It is attached.

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by mkae (Marko Käning)

Cc: mk@… added

Cc Me!

comment:10 Changed 9 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

Owner: changed from css@… to macports-tickets@…

comment:11 Changed 5 years ago by kencu (Ken)

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

four years of cmake updates have presumably fixed this by now. Please re-open if this is still an issue with current cmake builds.

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