Cannot install Perl via MacPorts on Lion

[jrzeznik1@…]

No versions of Perl will compile in Lion 10.7.2 with the 4.2.1 build of Xcode. I have tried Perl 5.12, and Perl 5.14 to no avail.

Specifically, the errors I run into are as follows:

• "I can't seem to find your C library" error. I found this is alleviated somewhat by manually editing the Portfile and adding "-Dusenm=n" in the configure post-args. For what it's worth, the Darwin 11 patch alluded to in the portfile is not working and nm still throws a fit without the hack in place.

• However, Perl still does not compile even with that edit. From an earlier ticket it appears that the portfile is skipping the entire "make depend" phase, which halts the build process with errors. Trying to manually run this script (sh ./makedepend MAKE=make) also fails.

I do think this is something that really needs to be fixed asap, given that quite a few ports are directly dependent on Perl to build and run--without it, parts of the MacPorts system are literally broken and useless. As an example, I noticed this issue with Perl when trying to build dash and wget (both of which seem to demand Perl 5.12).

There have been other tickets with this issue, but yet it appears this issue has never been fully resolved.

[jrzeznik1@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

As reporter you do not need to Cc yourself. Please do however Cc the maintainer of the affected port(s).

Please supply a main.log file from the failed build. There must be something unique about your system; it appears to work fine for many other users.

[nbest@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Please supply a main.log file from the failed build. There must be something unique about your system; it appears to work fine for many other users.

I am attaching my main.log as my situation seems relevant to this ticket. It appears that perl5.12 failed while I was trying to install cdo like so:

$ sudo port install cdo +grib2

. . .
--->  Fetching archive for perl5.12
--->  Attempting to fetch perl5.12-5.12.3_2.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/perl5.12
--->  Fetching perl5.12
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.12
--->  Extracting perl5.12
--->  Applying patches to perl5.12
--->  Configuring perl5.12
--->  Building perl5.12
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install perl5.12
Log for perl5.12 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_perl5.12/perl5.12/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: grib_api openjpeg pkgconfig glib2 perl5 perl5.12 perl5 xz netcdf curl curl-ca-bundle libidn openssl szip
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I was following the procedure given at ​http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration for getting Macports going on my Lion machine, so my Macports tree was completely clean AFAIK except for hdf-18 and proj that I installed separately ahead of cdo just because I had some trouble with them before finding out what I had to do to migrate. FWIW my Lion environment was set up by bringing everything over from my Snow Leopard machine in the process of setting up my new machine, which means I had to get Xcode through the AppStore, so that's at 4.2.1. Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks.

[nbest@…]

Error: Failed to install perl5.12

[nbest@…]

I can't explain this, but I seem to have gotten past this error by simply saying:

sudo port -v selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated

Neither action did much that was obvious but it must have appeased the Macports gods somehow.

$ sudo port -v selfupdate
Password:
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
base.tar

sent 10864 bytes  received 111 bytes  7316.67 bytes/sec
total size is 3226624  speedup is 294.00
receiving file list ... done
base.tar.rmd160

sent 64 bytes  received 116 bytes  120.00 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 2.84
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
receiving file list ... done
ports.tar

sent 48638 bytes  received 31761 bytes  22971.14 bytes/sec
total size is 48078336  speedup is 598.00
receiving file list ... done
ports.tar.rmd160

sent 64 bytes  received 636 bytes  466.67 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 0.73
Creating port index in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports
Adding port devel/npm
Adding port devel/qbzr
Adding port devel/upower
Adding port editors/xemacs
Adding port graphics/GraphicsMagick
Adding port graphics/graphviz-devel
Adding port graphics/graphviz-gui-devel
Adding port graphics/gvedit-devel
Adding port net/librsync
Adding port net/youtube-dl
Adding port python/py-celery
Adding subport py26-celery
Adding subport py27-celery
Adding port python/py-pymongo
Adding subport py25-pymongo
Adding subport py26-pymongo
Adding subport py27-pymongo
Adding port security/policykit
Adding port sysutils/beanstalkd
Adding port tex/BibTool

Total number of ports parsed:	20 
Ports successfully parsed:	20 
Ports failed:			0 
Up-to-date ports skipped:	13071

--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
lep:macports nbest$ sudo port upgrade outdated
Error: No ports matched the given expression

After that my original install command was able to proceed beyond perl5.12. It's still running but I'm optimistic.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

There's been a problem regarding the gdbm port recently concerning case-sensitive vs. case-insensitive file systems. I'm just guessing, but that's what might have happened here.

Since this has been solved I'm closing this ticket.