selfupdate 1.5.2 to 1.6.0 fails in registry (Panther)

[william.allen.simpson@…]

sudo port selfupdate
Password:
MacPorts base version 1.520 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600
Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 2
Command output: registry.c:305: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:306: error: request for member `status' in something not a structure or union
registry.c: At top level:
registry.c:321: error: parse error before '*' token
registry.c: In function `reg_start_write':
registry.c:322: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:323: error: request for member `status' in something not a structure or union
registry.c: At top level:
registry.c:333: error: parse error before '*' token
registry.c: In function `reg_end':
registry.c:334: error: request for member `status' in something not a structure or union
registry.c:335: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:341: error: request for member `db' in something not a structure or union
registry.c:341: error: `query' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:342: error: `SQLITE_OK' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:345: error: `SQLITE_BUSY' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:346: error: request for member `db' in something not a structure or union
registry.c: At top level:
registry.c:359: error: parse error before '*' token
registry.c: In function `reg_commit':
registry.c:360: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:361: error: request for member `status' in something not a structure or union
registry.c: At top level:
registry.c:376: error: parse error before '*' token
registry.c: In function `reg_rollback':
registry.c:377: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
registry.c:378: error: request for member `status' in something not a structure or union
make[2]: *** [registry.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1

[raimue@…]

I think this was fixed in r32212. Please confirm and close. See also #13631.

[william.allen.simpson@…]

That was 2 days ago, and I'm reporting this in real time....

[raimue@…]

Yes, this was fixed in trunk, which does not affect the already released version 1.6.0.

[william.allen.simpson@…]

Not cool. Panther users have to wait for 1.6.1? And I already have:

   sqlite3 @3.5.2_0 (active)

So another problem could be that it's not using its own -I/opt/local/include, either!

[raimue@…]

If we would link against /opt/local/include, how should you be able to update anymore if the API changes? How should port selfupdate work, if the library it was linked to is gone? Therefore it uses a bundled sqlite3.

[william.allen.simpson@…]

I was thinking more along the lines of falling back -- currently installed (/opt/local/include), OS, then bundled as backup.

AFAICT, "how should ... update anymore" didn't work out so well lately!

[ebgssth@…]

verified ./configure; make works on 10.3 but I don't know how to test port itself.

[jmpp@…]

We simply cannot use anything within ${prefix} when building MacPorts itself, as that would create some serious bootstrapping issues. There is a dmg for Panther in the works, which I haven't had a chance to look too much into lately, my fault, but unfortunately there's not much else we can do about this failure than waiting for that dmg and/or 1.6.1 (which arguably we could start pushing out sooner than later). The problem has been fixed in trunk and will be in 1.6.1, so I'm closing this ticket as fixed.

The reason why about two or three Panther specific bugs caught us by surprise is that there just aren't those many boxes out there any longer, and we're trying our best to maintain support for that legacy platform. Please bear with us!

-jmpp

[toby@…]

Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted