growl could not be installed on Mac OSX 10.7.3

[tsingyoung@…]

The error message is as bellows:

--->  Building growl
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for growl is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_aqua_Growl/growl/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Please see log file as well, any help would be appreciated.

[tsingyoung@…]

error log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm hardly surprised. Growl has been in need of being updated for some time. See other tickets.

[shenzhuxi@…]

Lion 10.7.2 /10.7.3/ 10.7.4

Xcode 4.3.2

MacPorts 2.1.1 Growl @1.1.6 (aqua)

error: There is no SDK with the name or path '/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk'

[pjobson@…]

Mountain Lion 10.8.0

Xcode 4.4.1

MacPorts 2.1.2

Growl @1.1.6, Revision 1 (aqua)

error: There is no SDK with the name or path '/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk'

error: There is no SDK with the name or path '/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk'

You can trick it into installing by symlinking the 10.4 sdk to newer ones, not sure if this causes instability.

As root:

cd /Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/
ln -s MacOSX10.7.sdk/ MacOSX10.4u.sdk

cd /Developer/SDKs/
ln -s MacOSX10.5.sdk/ MacOSX10.4u.sdk

If you don't have those SDK paths, you may try symlinking others... Again, this may cause things to break. I successfully installed Growl 1.1.6 with this method, as of this post the $3.99 one in the App store is version 1.4, haven't read the change log, not sure what the difference is.

[pjobson@…]

Per my reply above, probably better to just use Growl Fork and just turn off check for updates.

​https://bitbucket.org/pmetzger/growl/downloads

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[anddam (Andrea D'Amore)]

Cc Me!

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

In bf25ee27d67c2f646f1865559a3a01243c75a3ef/macports-ports:

Growl: Remove outdated and abandoned ports

Ports are outdated for years, last changes from 2010. Attempts to update
the port to a recent version were not successful. Later versions are
commercial and can be purchased in the Mac App Store.

Closes: #32911
Closes: #22684
Closes: #14273