Error: Processing of port xercesj failed

[jens.is.located@…]

Building of port failed under Mac OS X Mountain Lion with Java 7 Rev 9 installed. Please see the attached log file.

sudo port install xercesj
--->  Computing dependencies for xercesj
--->  Building xercesj
Error: org.macports.build for port xercesj returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port xercesj for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_java_xercesj/xercesj/main.log
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Error: Processing of port xercesj failed

[jens.is.located@…]

Cc Me!

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

The reporter is automatically Cc'ed.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This was not a clean build attempt; could you please ​clean and try again?

[jens.is.located@…]

I now cleaned the port and tried to installed the port. There is still an error. Please see the attached log file.

cd $(port dir xercesj)
sudo port clean
sudo port install xercesj

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, the error still seems to be:

:info:build    [xjavac] /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_java_xercesj/xercesj/work/xerces-2_11_0/build/src/org/apache/html/dom/HTMLFrameElementImpl.java:28: error: HTMLFrameElementImpl is not abstract and does not override abstract method getContentDocument() in HTMLFrameElement
:info:build    [xjavac] public class HTMLFrameElementImpl
:info:build    [xjavac]        ^
:info:build    [xjavac] /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_java_xercesj/xercesj/work/xerces-2_11_0/build/src/org/apache/html/dom/HTMLIFrameElementImpl.java:28: error: HTMLIFrameElementImpl is not abstract and does not override abstract method getContentDocument() in HTMLIFrameElement
:info:build    [xjavac] public class HTMLIFrameElementImpl
:info:build    [xjavac]        ^
:info:build    [xjavac] /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_java_xercesj/xercesj/work/xerces-2_11_0/build/src/org/apache/html/dom/HTMLObjectElementImpl.java:28: error: HTMLObjectElementImpl is not abstract and does not override abstract method getContentDocument() in HTMLObjectElement
:info:build    [xjavac] public class HTMLObjectElementImpl
:info:build    [xjavac]        ^

I search for that error and found this ​mailing list discussion.

But it builds fine for me on Mountain Lion. How did you install Java? Did you use ​this method or something else? What does "java -version" say?

[jens.is.located@…]

I am using the following Java version ("java -version"):

java version "1.7.0_09"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_09-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.5-b02, mixed mode)

I installed Java through ​http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

[mmpestorich (Mike M Pestorich)]

Cc Me!

[mmpestorich (Mike M Pestorich)]

I ran into the same issue with the following version of java 7:

java version "1.7.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_11-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)

I attached a patch (macports-xerces-2_11_0.patch) that allows xercesj to build but after reading through some old tickets on the xerces JIRA I believe the true underlying issue is related to the boot classpath being used by xjavac compiler (part of xercej-tools). See ​https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-983?page=all.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Commited in r105746 after somebody reported the patch to be working on IRC. This might not be the ideal way to fix this issue, though.