cedet @1.1 fails to build on OS X Yosemite

[emcrisostomo (Enrico Maria Crisostomo)]

Hi all,

I've just updated MacPorts on an OS X 10.10 machine and cedet @1.1 fails to build:

sudo port install cedet
--->  Computing dependencies for cedet
--->  Fetching archive for cedet
--->  Attempting to fetch cedet-1.1_0.darwin_14.noarch.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/cedet
--->  Attempting to fetch cedet-1.1_0.darwin_14.noarch.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/cedet
--->  Attempting to fetch cedet-1.1_0.darwin_14.noarch.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/cedet
--->  Fetching distfiles for cedet
--->  Verifying checksums for cedet
--->  Extracting cedet
--->  Configuring cedet
--->  Building cedet
Error: org.macports.build for port cedet returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port cedet for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_editors_cedet/cedet/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
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Error: Processing of port cedet failed

The final part of the log says:

:info:build ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.
:info:build Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
:info:build make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
:info:build make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_editors_cedet/cedet/work/cedet-1.1/common'
:info:build make: *** [common] Error 2
:info:build make: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_editors_cedet/cedet/work/cedet-1.1'
:info:build Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_editors_cedet/cedet/work/cedet-1.1" && /usr/bin/make -w all
:info:build Exit code: 2
:error:build org.macports.build for port cedet returned: command execution failed
:debug:build Error code: CHILDSTATUS 23052 2
:debug:build Backtrace: command execution failed
    while executing
"system -nice 0 $fullcmdstring"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval system $notty $nice \$fullcmdstring"
    invoked from within
"command_exec build"
    (procedure "portbuild::build_main" line 8)
    invoked from within
"portbuild::build_main org.macports.build"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval $procedure $targetname"

Attached you can find the log referred to.

Thank you very much,

Enrico

[emcrisostomo (Enrico Maria Crisostomo)]

cedet - mail.log of the failing build

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I don't know what to do to fix this. Could you report the problem to the developers of cedet so that they can fix it?

[emcrisostomo (Enrico Maria Crisostomo)]

Thank you Ryan,

I'll open a PR upstream.