mosesdecoder @20121007: g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-no-cpp-precomp'

[will.c.hunt@…]

I have installed MacPorts (for the first time) to build Moses (mosesdecoder).

I successfully installed giza-pp and irstlm (related translation tools) and had no problems installing all of Moses's dependencies (including boost). I also installed and selected gcc49 because I read that boost 1.59 doesn't work with gcc43 (default version).

Unfortunately I always get the following error when trying to install mosesdecoder. (I have cleaned and retried several times)

$ sudo port install mosesdecoder
--->  Computing dependencies for mosesdecoder
--->  Fetching archive for mosesdecoder
--->  Attempting to fetch mosesdecoder-20121007_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/mosesdecoder
--->  Attempting to fetch mosesdecoder-20121007_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/mosesdecoder
--->  Attempting to fetch mosesdecoder-20121007_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/mosesdecoder
--->  Fetching distfiles for mosesdecoder
--->  Verifying checksums for mosesdecoder
--->  Extracting mosesdecoder
--->  Applying patches to mosesdecoder
--->  Configuring mosesdecoder
--->  Building mosesdecoder
Error: org.macports.build for port mosesdecoder returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port mosesdecoder for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_mosesdecoder/mosesdecoder/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: Processing of port mosesdecoder failed

(main.log is attached)

Here is the result of "port installed" just in case...

  autoconf @2.69_5 (active)
  automake @1.15_1 (active)
  boost @1.59.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27 (active)
  bzip2 @1.0.6_0 (active)
  cctools @870_0+llvm35 (active)
  clang-3.3 @3.3_8+analyzer+arm_runtime+python27 (active)
  clang_select @1.0_0 (active)
  cloog @0.18.3_0 (active)
  db48 @4.8.30_4 (active)
  dyld-headers @239.3_0 (active)
  expat @2.1.0_0 (active)
  gcc49 @4.9.3_0 (active)
  gcc_select @0.1_8 (active)
  gdbm @1.11_1 (active)
  gettext @0.19.6_0 (active)
  giza-pp @1.0.7_0 (active)
  gmp @6.0.0_1 (active)
  gperf @3.0.4_2 (active)
  icu @55.1_0 (active)
  irstlm @5.80.03_0 (active)
  isl @0.14.1_0 (active)
  ld64 @2_0 (active)
  ld64-latest @242_0+llvm35 (active)
  libcxx @3.6.0_0 (active)
  libedit @20150325-3.1_0 (active)
  libffi @3.2.1_0 (active)
  libgcc @5.2.0_0 (active)
  libiconv @1.14_0 (active)
  libmacho-headers @870_0 (active)
  libmpc @1.0.3_0 (active)
  libtool @2.4.6_1 (active)
  libunwind-headers @3.6.0_0 (active)
  llvm-3.3 @3.3_8 (active)
  llvm-3.5 @3.5.2_5 (active)
  llvm-gcc42 @2336.11_2 (active)
  llvm_select @1.0_0 (active)
  mpfr @3.1.3_0 (active)
  ncurses @6.0_0 (active)
  openssl @1.0.2d_0 (active)
  perl5 @5.16.3_0+perl5_16 (active)
  perl5.16 @5.16.3_1 (active)
  python2_select @0.0_1 (active)
  python27 @2.7.10_3 (active)
  python_select @0.3_5 (active)
  sqlite3 @3.8.11.1_0 (active)
  xz @5.2.2_0 (active)
  zlib @1.2.8_0 (active)

I am guessing this has something to do with boost or Mac OS 10.11 compatibility. Perhaps I should try another gcc version or boost variation?

Thanks alot, and I apologize in advance if this is some kind of simple newbie mistake.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please Cc the port maintainers (port info --maintainers mosesdecoder), if any.

Also, please attach the complete main.log file after running port clean on the port. Otherwise we have no idea what the problem is.