gnutls fails to build when nawk is installed

[dhelrod@…]

Just got a new MacBook Air for work. It is running OSX 10.9.4.

I tried to install various packages which failed due to gnutls problem. I did a "port clean gnutls" followed by "port install gnutls" and got:

...

--->  Attempting to fetch gnutls-3.3.5_1.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/gnutls
--->  Fetching distfiles for gnutls
--->  Verifying checksums for gnutls
--->  Extracting gnutls
--->  Applying patches to gnutls
--->  Configuring gnutls
Error: Failed to configure gnutls, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/work/gnutls-3.3.5/config.log
Error: org.macports.configure for port gnutls returned: configure failure: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port gnutls for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
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Error: Processing of port gnutls failed

I have attached the log file mentioned above.

I was surprised to not see other tickets related to this problem...

[dhelrod@…]

main.log for gnutls install failure

[dhelrod@…]

config.log for gnutls install bug

[dhelrod@…]

The whole install attempt was:

bash-3.2# port install gnutls
--->  Computing dependencies for gnutls
--->  Configuring gnutls
Error: Failed to configure gnutls, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/work/gnutls-3.3.5/config.log
Error: org.macports.configure for port gnutls returned: configure failure: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port gnutls for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: Processing of port gnutls failed
bash-3.2# port clean
Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("Could not find Portfile in /Users/delrod").
Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
To use the current port, you must be in a port's directory.
bash-3.2# port clean gnutls
--->  Cleaning gnutls
bash-3.2# port install gnutls
--->  Computing dependencies for gnutls
--->  Fetching archive for gnutls
--->  Attempting to fetch gnutls-3.3.5_1.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/gnutls
--->  Attempting to fetch gnutls-3.3.5_1.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/gnutls
--->  Attempting to fetch gnutls-3.3.5_1.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/gnutls
--->  Fetching distfiles for gnutls
--->  Verifying checksums for gnutls
--->  Extracting gnutls
--->  Applying patches to gnutls
--->  Configuring gnutls
Error: Failed to configure gnutls, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/work/gnutls-3.3.5/config.log
Error: org.macports.configure for port gnutls returned: configure failure: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port gnutls for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
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Error: Processing of port gnutls failed
bash-3.2# 

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The log says:

:info:configure nawk: syntax error at source line 1 source file ./confqlsb2a/subs.awk
:info:configure  context is
:info:configure          >>> BEGIN <<<  {
:info:configure nawk: bailing out at source line 1105

Many ports fail to configure when nawk is installed but gawk is not installed. nawk doesn't seem to be a very competent awk implementation... Please either install gawk or uninstall nawk. We should add conflicts_build nawk to this port, as we've done to many other ports already.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

You can also build in trace mode, using sudo port -t install gnutls, to work around this issue.

[dhelrod@…]

That works! It is amazing the number of ports that depend on gnutls.

Thank you! David

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

We should use the conflicts_build PortGroup and add a build-time conflict with nawk.

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

or maybe force the build to use system awk? (like we do for apr).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

r142775