dbus-glib: error rebuilding in rev-upgrade

[adamcrussell (Adam Russell)]

I am doing an upgrade of several ports and am getting this error when it gets to dbus

--->  Building dbus
Error: org.macports.build for port dbus returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port dbus for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_dbus/dbus/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error rebuilding dbus-glib
    while executing
"error "Error rebuilding $portname""
    (procedure "revupgrade_scanandrebuild" line 395)
    invoked from within
"revupgrade_scanandrebuild broken_port_counts $opts"
    (procedure "macports::revupgrade" line 5)
    invoked from within
"macports::revupgrade $opts"
    (procedure "action_revupgrade" line 2)
    invoked from within
"action_revupgrade $action $portlist $opts"
    (procedure "action_upgrade" line 25)
    invoked from within
"$action_proc $action $portlist [array get global_options]"
    (procedure "process_cmd" line 93)
    invoked from within
"process_cmd $remaining_args"
    invoked from within
"if { [llength $remaining_args] > 0 } {

    # If there are remaining arguments, process those as a command
    set exit_status [process_cmd $remaining..."
    (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 5254)

dbus/main.log is attached

Any advice on how to get through this? Thanks!

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

The attempt is not a clean one. Please run sudo port clean dbus-glib and try again.

That being said, your log file references an .la file:

:info:build grep: /opt/local/lib/libgio-2.0.la: No such file or directory
:info:build /opt/local/bin/gsed: can't read /opt/local/lib/libgio-2.0.la: No such file or directory
:info:build libtool: link: `/opt/local/lib/libgio-2.0.la' is not a valid libtool archive

Did you recently upgrade to a newer version of OS X and didn't follow wiki:Migration?

[adamcrussell (Adam Russell)]

Well, I did upgrade the OS a few months back. Perhaps now that it catching up to me? I followed the Migration instructions on the wiki, just now, and no longer have the problem. The instructions are basically just a total uninstall/clean/re-install so it I suppose it *could* have been something else, but I'll never know. :)

Thanks!

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Glad you got it working.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

It's actually pretty likely that these .la files caused the issue – they are no longer there after Migration, because MacPorts on 10.9 doesn't install them anymore. They cause more trouble for us than they solve.

However, partially deleting them can cause the problems you saw – so that's likely what happened here.