ncurses, libpixman: build error with nawk

[phil@…]

I'm trying to upgrade my outdated ports after selfupdating to Macports 2.0.1. It fails on both ncurses and libpixman, which my remaining upgrades depend on. (grails-devel worked just fine.)

Specific error:

--->  Configuring ncurses
--->  Building ncurses
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for ncurses is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/ncurses/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Steps I've tried:

• port clean ncurses
• port clean --all ncurses
• port clean --all outdated
• Rebooting

Uninstalling would remove a lot of dependencies, and I don't believe that is the issue. All of the MacPorts issues I've found that sound even similar (ex: #29921, #26791) are closed as duplicates or as "WorksForMe". None have workarounds.

System info:

• Snow Leopard: 10.6.8
• XCode:

  Xcode 3.2.6
  Component versions: DevToolsCore-1809.0; DevToolsSupport-1806.0
  BuildVersion: 10M2518
  

• MacPorts: 2.0.1

I'm not planning on upgrading XCode to version 4, and the manual doesn't list it as a requirement.

The full log is attached. I wasn't sure what was relevant.

[phil@…]

main.log for ncurses

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

You appear to have nawk installed. Try uninstalling or at least deactivating nawk while trying to build ncurses. nawk has been implicated in other port failures like #30239.

sudo port clean ncurses
sudo port -f deactivate nawk
sudo port install ncurses

And then if desired:

sudo port activate nawk

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Let us know if libpixman then also succeeds; if not attach that main.log.

[phil@…]

OK, I went one further - I completely removed nawk. (I don't know how it got installed, because I don't even know what it is!). That seems to have fixed it. It didn't even occur to me that having it installed was the issue - it looked like it was part of the build process.

Thank you - that was incredibly frustrating.

libpixman seems to have worked as well. All my ports are now updated.

Thanks again.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

r81675

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Perhaps it would be appropriate for us to modify ncurses and libpixman{,-devel} to force the use of /usr/bin/awk? We've done that in other ports for other reasons (#30308).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I've done this for libpixman{,-devel} in r81677.