Problem Hotlist
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Problem Hotlist
- Build failures after updating to version 16.0 of Xcode Command Line Tools
- sqlite error: attempt to write a readonly database
- Certificate expired messages when accessing web sites encrypted by Let's Encrypt certificates
- Incorrect version of Xcode selected
- install_name_tool or strip reports "malformed object (unknown load command)"
- Incompatible library version: X requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
- man port fails with error message
- Fetch failures
- Image error: /opt/local/bin/xmlwf already exists and does not belong to a registered port
- A port failed to build with a message referring to 1/lib: No such file or directory
- Reinstalling the command line tools
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Retired Problems
- Port installation fails with "no destroot found"
- port fails with: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p…
- Build failures after upgrading to Xcode 7.2
- Build failures after upgrading to ncurses 6
- Error message from "port upgrade outdated": uninstall failure: "an invalid entry was passed"
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MacPorts
port installs fail after an OS X upgrade - Can't find Tcl configuration definitions
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MacPorts
port installs fail on OS X Lion 10.7 after a fresh App Store installation of Xcode - Missing Command Line Tools
- Xcode License Agreement
Build failures after updating to version 16.0 of Xcode Command Line Tools
If you update an older version of the Command Line Tools for Xcode to version 16.0, clang++ may no longer be able to find standard C++ headers. This appears to be due in part to the installer neglecting to remove a directory that was installed by older versions.
You can fix the problem by running the following command:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/include/c++
Then clean the port that failed and try again.
Ticket: #70750
sqlite error: attempt to write a readonly database
You may get this error after updating to a new MacPorts version. Write permissions to the registry database are needed in order to update it. Running any port command once as root will allow the update to succeed, and after that things should work normally. For example:
sudo port outdated
Ticket: #70511
Certificate expired messages when accessing web sites encrypted by Let's Encrypt certificates
Let's Encrypt is a popular free service that MacPorts and others use to obtain certificates to encrypt their web sites. Certificates they issue are signed by the ISRG Root X1 certificate authority. When the service got started in 2015, no web browser or operating system knew about it and would not have trusted these certificates, so they cross-signed the ISRG Root X1 certificate using DST Root CA X3, a trusted certificate authority already preinstalled in operating systems and browsers at that time. In the meantime, a version of the ISRG Root X1 certificate that has not been cross-signed by DST Root CA X3 has been included in modern browsers and operating systems. On September 30, 2021, DST Root CA X3 expired. As a result, older operating systems and browsers (and other user agents that use networking facilities provided by the OS, such as MacPorts when it downloads files) can no longer verify the trust of sites encrypted using Let's Encrypt.
Users of older software can and probably should manually fix their computers to allow access to Let's Encrypt web sites by downloading the new ISRG Root X1 certificate and installing it in their certificate bundle.
/usr/bin/curl and Safari use the operating system's keychain as their certificate bundle, and on macOS 10.15 and later and on macOS 10.12, no fixes appear to be needed. On OS X 10.11 and earlier, perform these steps:
- Visit this URL which will download the ISRG Root X1 certificate: http://x1.i.lencr.org
- Open the Keychain Access app by searching for it using Spotlight or LaunchPad or use the Finder to navigate to the Utilities folder of your disk's Applications folder.
- From the list of keychains in the upper left pane of that window, select System.
- Drag the x1.i.lencr.org file (from your Downloads folder, Desktop, or wherever your browser downloaded it to) anywhere into the list of certificates at the right of the Keychain Access window.
- On Mac OS X 10.7 and earlier:
- A sheet drops down asking if you would like to trust the certificate.
- Click the Always Trust button.
- Enter your administrator username and password.
- On OS X 10.8 and later:
- Enter your administrator username and password to allow the certificate to be added to the keychain.
- Locate the certificate in the list of certificates. If you can't see it, type x1 into the search box at the upper right of the Keychain Access window.
- Double-click the certificate in the list to open its window.
- It will show that "This certificate is not trusted."
- Disclose the Trust section by clicking the disclosure triangle next to the word Trust so that the triangle points down.
- On the first line item which reads "When using this certificate", change "Use System Defaults" to "Always Trust".
- Close the window and enter your administrator username and password to allow the change to be made.
- If the certificate still shows as untrusted in the main Keychain Access window, that's just because the list hasn't refreshed. If you'd like to confirm that the certificate is now trusted, re-enter x1 into the search box.
- Quit Keychain Access.
- Open Safari and verify that you can now access https://build.macports.org
The above seems to fix /usr/bin/curl and Safari on OS X 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11.
With /usr/bin/curl on macOS 10.13 and 10.14, and with /usr/bin/curl and Safari Mac OS X 10.7 and earlier, there is an additional problem. Let's Encrypt currently recommends that web server administrators serve a full certificate chain containing three certificates: the web site's own certificate issued by Let's Encrypt (R3), the R3 certificate issued by ISRG Root X1, and the ISRG Root X1 certificate issued by DST Root CA X3, and the certbot software by default produces this kind of full chain. The intention is that browsers evaluating this chain will stop at the second certificate, recognizing that it is signed by ISRG Root X1 which is already in the trusted certificate bundle. But on these OS versions, the entire chain gets evaluated, including the ISRG Root X1 certificate cross-signed by DST Root CA X3, and the expiration of DST Root CA X3 causes certificate validation to fail. To fix this, web server administrators should edit the full chain file and remove the third (last) entry: the one for DST Root CA X3, and when they renew their certificate with certbot in the future, they should use the flag --preferred-chain "ISRG Root X1". We'll be making this change on the MacPorts servers that we control, but you might have to contact the owners of other web sites and ask them to make this change.
If you use other software (such as Chrome, Firefox, or other third party web browsers) that uses its own certificate bundle rather than the keychain, check for an updated version of that software. Firefox offers an Extended Support Release. If no update is available for your OS version, you'll have to install the new ISRG Root X1 certificate in that software's certificate bundle, wherever it might be.
/opt/local/bin/curl and some other software installed by MacPorts uses a certificate bundle provided by the curl-ca-bundle port which is already fixed.
Incorrect version of Xcode selected
There have been reports of xcode-select not pointing to the new Xcode location for some users after upgrading from an Xcode version older than 4.3. If you are having problems even with the latest MacPorts version and xcode-select -print-path does not print /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer on your system, or
Warning: Xcode appears to be installed but xcodebuild is unusable; some ports will likely fail to build.
then you need to run:
sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
This is particularly important for people who have error messages referring to their old compiler locations after installing Xcode later than 4.2: you need to reinstall the package that stored the old compiler location if you see an error message like this:
error: can't exec '/Developer/usr/bin/<compiler>' (No such file or directory)
So far this error is seen in previously-built perl and python when building perl or python modules. For example, if a py27-xxxx port fails to install and the log contains error messages of this type, try reinstalling the main python27 port with:
sudo port -n upgrade --force python27
Note you might have an older version of the xcode-select tool in case you installed Xcode 4.2 after installing the Mac OS X 10.7.3 update. If the command xcode-select -version returns version 2003, this is from Xcode 4.2 and we recommend to install the update once again with the Mac OS X 10.7.3 combo updater. The current xcode-select version that comes with Mac OS X 10.7.3 identifies itself as version 2307.
install_name_tool or strip reports "malformed object (unknown load command)"
An error message like:
install_name_tool: object: libfoo.dylib malformed object (unknown load command 8)
or:
strip: object: libbar.dylib malformed object (unknown load command 9)
indicates that your install_name_tool or strip commands (both are part of the Xcode command line tools) are too old to deal with the types of objects produced by the compiler. (The number after "unknown load command" may be different.) This can happen if you have forgotten to update the Xcode command line tools to a version designed for your version of OS X.
Incompatible library version: X requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
You might see this error when running a program, or in the main.log or config.log when a port fails to configure or build:
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib Referenced from: /path/to/X Reason: Incompatible library version: X requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
This usually means libiconv is installed for the wrong architecture(s) and needs to be rebuilt. To rebuild libiconv:
sudo port -n upgrade --force libiconv
But if libiconv's architecture was wrong, it's likely other ports have the similar problem. The usual reason for architecture mismatches is that you migrated from Leopard or earlier to Snow Leopard or later and did not follow the migration instructions. Another possible culprit is installing a third-party software package that was itself created using MacPorts, which overwrote some of your MacPorts files; see #xmlwf for more on this.
The error message is confusing. What OS X should be saying is: "The program or library X is linked with /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib and requires version 8.0.0 of that library. /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib is at least version 8.0.0, but it's built for the wrong architecture, so I'm going to look around for another libiconv.2.dylib. Ok, I found /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib and it's built for the right architectures, so I'll use that instead. Wait, /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib is only version 7.0.0. That's too old for X. I'll display an error message that the version is too old."
Another possible culprit is that you have DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH set in your environment; if so, try unsetting it.
man port fails with error message
Error message:
$ man port Cannot open the message catalog "man" for locale "de_DE.UTF-8" (NLSPATH="<none>") No manual entry for port
Workaround:
Add the following line to your .profile or .bash_profile.
unset MANPATH
Ticket: #13444
Fetch failures
If fetch failed for a port, you can still get the distfile from anywhere else. For example, the main MacPorts distfiles mirror contains most ports' distfiles, or maybe the homepage of the software lists alternative download locations for source tarballs. Just download the distfile and save it to the path shown by port distfiles <portname>. Make sure you get a file with exactly the same name (watch out for .tar.gz and .tar.bz2!) If a port clean --all has been done the distfile directory will have been removed. The directory for each port is created at the beginning of the fetch phase. After placing the distfile, run port install <portname>again.
Note: Checksum failures after a fetch are typically a separate issue. See the FAQ.
Image error: /opt/local/bin/xmlwf already exists and does not belong to a registered port
When installing a port with MacPorts, you encounter this error:
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/xmlwf already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port expat.
xmlwf is a part of the expat port (which is a dependency of many other ports, and thus is likely to be one of the first ports to ever get installed), but for some reason this file already exists on your computer, and MacPorts did not install it.
One possible reason for this is that you have installed a 3rd-party software package—possibly gprolog or swi-prolog or SMBup—which was itself built with MacPorts, set to its default prefix, and therefore conflicts with your normal use of MacPorts in its default prefix. The developers of the 3rd-party package you installed should not have distributed their software in this manner; they should have configured MacPorts in a custom prefix instead, one that is unique to their software. (For example, in the case of swi-prolog, /usr/local/swi-prolog or /opt/swi-prolog would be good choices.)
Another possible reason is that you previously had MacPorts (and expat and probably other ports) installed, then somehow uninstalled MacPorts itself, or at least its registry of which ports are installed, without actually uninstalling those ports, and have now installed MacPorts again with a clean registry, which therefore thinks no ports are installed, though some still are.
Either way, the cleanest solution at this point is to follow the MacPorts uninstallation instructions. This will remove the 3rd-party software package that installed itself unannounced into MacPorts' prefix, and/or ports installed by your prior MacPorts installation. Then you can install MacPorts again.
A port failed to build with a message referring to 1/lib: No such file or directory
Error message:
apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: 1/lib: No such file or directory make: *** Error 1
Explanation:
When upgrading from Tiger to Leopard without removing the previous Mac OS version, updated versions of some libraries in /usr/ and /usr/lib/ are moved from /old/path/ to /old/path 1/. Notice the space before 1. This makes some configure scripts build bad build instructions, making the build phases of several ports fail.
Two incriminated directories have been encountered :
/usr/X11R6 1/ /usr/lib/ruby 1/
Workaround:
In order to fix this problem, you can remove the backups created by the installers, and then clean the work directory of the failed port so that its configure script will be re-run:
port clean --work <port>
Reinstalling the command line tools
When the Command Line Tools package is installed, a receipt is generated that can be accessed with pkgutil.
When upgrading macOS or Xcode, this receipt can be lost even though the Command Line Tools remain installed.
Without this receipt, MacPorts cannot determine which version of the Command Line Tools package is installed, and worse, Software Update will never update the Command Line Tools.
To verify whether you have a Command Line Tools receipt, run this command:
pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.{CLTools_Executables,CLTools_Base,DeveloperToolsCLI,DeveloperToolsCLILeo} 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^version: //p'
If it prints a version number, that's the version of the Command Line Tools that are installed, according to the receipt. If it doesn't print anything, you don't have a receipt and should reinstall the Command Line Tools as follows.
Fix:
Reinstalling the Command Line Tools package fixes the problem (however future updates will cause it to recur until Apple fixes the bug).
On OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later, Software Update can reinstall the package:
touch /tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progresssoftwareupdate -l- Run Software Update and install the Command Line Tools. If more than one version is presented, select only the version that matches your Xcode version.
rm /tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progresssoftwareupdate -l- Software Update will continue to list the Command Line Tools package as outdated so long as the file
/tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progressexists, so don't forget to run the previous command to remove it.
If the version of Xcode you're using hasn't been released yet, or if your OS X version is older than 10.9, the Command Line Tools won't be available through Software Update. You'll need to download and install them yourself:
- Download and install the Command Line Tools package from the Apple Developer site.
If the version of the Command Line Tools you need is not listed at the developer site, but an older version is, reinstalling the older version will restore the package receipts. Then just run Software Update to trigger the update to the newer version.
If you've had to reinstall the Command Line Tools because of this bug, consider reporting this issue to Apple via the Feedback Assistant application or https://feedbackassistant.apple.com.
Retired Problems
The following problems are now solved, no longer apply to current MacPorts or should no longer be happening due to other circumstances. They are kept here for future reference and to avoid breaking existing links.
Port installation fails with "no destroot found"
The most common reason for seeing this issue should be fixed as of MacPorts 2.8.0, but it would still be possible to get into the problematic state by more esoteric means like manually deleting the destroot directory in a port's work directory.
Installing a port fails with the error message "no destroot found", for example:
:error:install org.macports.install for port libpixman returned: no destroot found at: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_libpixman/libpixman/work/destroot
This happens when you have existing files that conflict with the ones that a port wants to install, so the port fails to activate, and you then uninstall the port and try to install it again without cleaning it first. The workaround is to clean the affected port and try again. For example the above error shows libpixman is the port that failed, so to clean it you would run:
sudo port clean libpixman
Ticket tracking this issue: #55445
port fails with: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p…
Error message:
Error: Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
The perl5.8, perl5.10 and perl5.12 ports used to conflict with each other unless a particular variant was selected. This has now been solved by suffixing their binaries with a version number, and the perl5 port installs links without any suffix. The old versions of perl5.x conflict with the current version of perl5.
Fix:
To fix this issue, upgrade whichever of the above ports that you have installed.
port upgrade installed and \( perl5.8 perl5.10 perl5.12 \)
Build failures after upgrading to Xcode 7.2
After installing the update to Xcode 7.2, port installations or upgrades using xcodebuild may fail with the following error due to an error in the Xcode installation. This has been fixed by Apple in Xcode 7.3.
Could not find service "com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService" in domain for uid: 502 2015-12-10 17:21:27.407 xcodebuild[7363:75765] launchctl print returned an error code: 28928 2015-12-10 17:21:27.407 xcodebuild[7363:75765] Failed to locate a valid instance of CoreSimulatorService in the bootstrap. Adding it now. Could not find service "com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService" in domain for uid: 502 2015-12-10 17:21:27.431 xcodebuild[7363:75765] launchctl print returned an error code: 28928 2015-12-10 17:21:27.431 xcodebuild[7363:75765] *** Assertion failure in -[SimServiceContext reloadServiceIfMovedOrAbortIfWeAreInvalid], /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/CoreSimulator/CoreSimulator-201.3/CoreSimulator/SimServiceContext.m:451 ** INTERNAL ERROR: Uncaught exception ** Exception: Unable to lookup com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService in the bootstrap. This can happen if running with a sandbox profile. When running with a sandbox profile, make sure that com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService.xpc is owned by root, not group writable, and not world writable. See <rdar://problem/22142915>.
For OS X 10.11, please update to Xcode 7.3 to fix the permissions.
Updating to Xcode 7.3 appears to be no longer automatic in App Store Updates. You may try updating from the Xcode App Store page directly, or obtaining Xcode 7.3 via Apple's Developer downloads area.
For OS X 10.10, or as an alternative, the workaround is to manually fix the permissions of the path mentioned in the error message. User should be 'root', group should be 'wheel', and write permissions only granted for the owner:
sudo chmod -R g-w $(xcode-select -p)/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreSimulator.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService.xpc sudo chown -R root:wheel $(xcode-select -p)/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreSimulator.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService.xpc
Build failures after upgrading to ncurses 6
After upgrading ncurses to version 6, a port may fail to build, with the following error message in the main.log or config.log file:
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libreadline.6.dylib Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
The solution is to upgrade readline:
sudo port upgrade readline
Then clean the port that originally failed to build, and try to build it again.
The problem occurs when building ports that use an autotools-based configure script, after having upgraded ncurses to version 6 but before having upgraded readline to use ncurses 6. The reason the problem occurs is that part of the boilerplate that autotools bakes into every configure script is to locate an awk implementation. The first one it checks for is gawk, so if the gawk port happens to be installed, a configure script will try to use that. gawk depends on readline, which depends on ncurses, and if you have upgraded ncurses but haven't upgraded readline to use the new ncurses, then gawk will be broken.
MacPorts usually upgrades dependencies first, so you wouldn't see this problem if gawk were listed as a dependency of the port that failed to build. But we don't want to add unnecessary gawk dependencies to thousands of configure-based ports when the awk implementation that's part of OS X would work just as well.
Error message from "port upgrade outdated": uninstall failure: "an invalid entry was passed"
Before MacPorts 2.1.3 it was possible to leave the registry in an inconsistent state if an uninstallation was interrupted. Although this has been fixed in version 2.1.3, the fix does not cure a previously corrupt registry.
The perl script attached to the ticket about this bug fixes the registry. The direct link is here.
MacPorts port installs fail after an OS X upgrade
An installation of MacPorts and the ports installed by it are only designed to work on a single OS release and a single CPU architecture. So in most cases, MacPorts needs to be reinstalled after an OS upgrade.
See Migration, for OS X Mavericks problems see MavericksProblems.
Note: Starting with MacPorts 2.3.0, MacPorts will print an error message if this occurs and direct you to Migration. The message will read:
Current platform "darwin YZ" does not match expected platform "darwin XY" If you upgraded your OS, please follow the migration instructions: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
Can't find Tcl configuration definitions
When installing MacPorts from source on 10.9, you may encounter the error
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: error: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions
The file tclConfig.sh was included in the Mac OS X base in earlier releases, but was moved to the Xcode Command Line Tools in 10.9; these are normally installed the first time you run clang after accepting the Xcode license, but running the configure script doesn't run clang until after the Tcl check. The easiest way to force installation is to run:
xcode-select --install
after installing Xcode 5.0.1 or later.
Note: This can no longer occur starting with MacPorts 2.3.0, because it ships its own copy of Tcl.
MacPorts port installs fail on OS X Lion 10.7 after a fresh App Store installation of Xcode
The port command will remind you to install Xcode (or upgrade if you have an old version lying around from a previous installation of OS X). This is most easily accomplished using the "App Store" application on your Mac, which requires an Apple ID. Xcode 4.5 is the version currently available for Lion from the App Store.
However, as with Xcode 4.3 and later (below), the command line tools required for the build process are not installed automatically and require an additional manual step to install the tools through Xcode's preferences.
Note: MacPorts 2.3.0 will print a warning if the command line tools are missing and advise you how to install them. On systems below 10.9, the message should read:
The Xcode Command Line Tools don't appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build. You can install them from Xcode's Preferences in the Downloads section. See https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.html#installing.xcode.lion for more information.
Missing Command Line Tools
Xcode 4.3 and later do not include a fully working set of command line tools by default. Starting with Mavericks, shims in /usr/bin will check for an Xcode installation and automatically use the tools provided by it. In the first case, nothing will build, in the second case, most ports will build, but some will fail because they expect headers to be located in /usr/include (which is empty or doesn't exist when the command line tools aren't installed).
On systems earlier than 10.9 you must open Xcode, go to Preferences, and download this component from the Downloads section. You will require an Apple ID to download the component. Starting with Mavericks you can install the command line tools by executing xcode-select --install on the command line.
Note: MacPorts 2.3.0 will print a warning if the command line tools are missing and advise you how to install them. The message will read:
The Xcode Command Line Tools don't appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.
The message will advise you how to install the missing tools, on 10.9:
Install them by running `xcode-select --install'.
On Mountain Lion and below:
You can install them from Xcode's Preferences in the Downloads section. See https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.html#installing.xcode.lion for more information.
Xcode License Agreement
Starting with Xcode 4.3, compilation of ports could fail if the Xcode EULA wasn't accepted. Run:
xcodebuild -license
from a terminal window and follow the prompts. After accepting the EULA, retry building the port.
With some ports and some versions of Xcode (e.g. libunwind-headers with Xcode 4.4+ or any version of Xcode 5) you may need to accept the license as root, i.e.:
sudo xcodebuild -license
This may need to be repeated after any Xcode upgrade.
Note: MacPorts >= 2.3.0 will print an error message and abort if it detects this situation. The message will read:
It seems you have not accepted the Xcode license; most ports will fail to build. Agree to the license by opening Xcode or running `sudo xcodebuild -license'.