Installation of poppler on Yosemite hangs in configure

[piranha32 (Jacek Radzikowski)]

Installation of poppler on OSX Yosemite hangs in configure. I tried to remove macports and install again, upgrade all components, but it did not fix the problem.

This are the messages printed on the terminal by port -v install:

$ sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v install poppler
--->  Computing dependencies for poppler.
--->  Fetching archive for poppler
--->  poppler-0.29.0_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified
--->  Attempting to fetch poppler-0.29.0_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/poppler
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0--->  Attempting to fetch poppler-0.29.0_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/poppler
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0--->  Attempting to fetch poppler-0.29.0_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/poppler
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   287  100   287    0     0    824      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   827
--->  Fetching distfiles for poppler
--->  Verifying checksums for poppler
--->  Checksumming poppler-0.29.0.tar.xz
--->  Extracting poppler
--->  Extracting poppler-0.29.0.tar.xz
--->  Patching configure.ac: s:-fno-check-new::g
--->  Configuring poppler
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: glibtoolize --copy --force
glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
glibtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
glibtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf: running: /opt/local/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /opt/local/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:12: installing './compile'
configure.ac:9: installing './missing'
cpp/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk

Logfile (attached) does not show any error messages.

[piranha32 (Jacek Radzikowski)]

Poppler log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It works fine for me on Yosemite. On my system, the next thing after finding awk is:

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

What version of Xcode do you have installed? What does xcodebuild -version say? What about clang -v and make -v?

[piranha32 (Jacek Radzikowski)]

The system was upgraded from Maverick; I installed xcode and CLI tools from Apple store. Tool versions:

$ xcodebuild -version
Xcode 6.1.1
Build version 6A2008a

$ clang -v
Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0
Thread model: posix

$ make -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
$

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Works for me on Yosemite as well. When upgrading from Mavericks did you follow the ​Migration instructions?

[piranha32 (Jacek Radzikowski)]

Replying to devans@…:

Works for me on Yosemite as well. When upgrading from Mavericks did you follow the ​Migration instructions?

At the time when I upgraded the system there was no Yosemite version of MacPorts yet. When the installer appeared on the website I ended up removing the old version following instructions from ​https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.uninstalling and installing everything from scratch. To make sure that I did not miss anything I removed MacPorts again and installed from freshly downloaded installer. Installer completed without errors. To make sure that I had up to date versions of all packages I ran "port selfupdate" and "port upgrade outdated".

On Maverick I also had Homebrew installed, but I removed it before second attempt to install MacPorts, following instructions from brew's FAQ.

[piranha32 (Jacek Radzikowski)]

I ran port -d install poppler, but it did not show any additional information from configure:

[...]
DEBUG: Assembled command: 'cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_poppler/poppler/work/poppler-0.30.0" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-poppler-qt4 --disable-poppler-qt5 --disable-gtk-test --disable-silent-rules --enable-xpdf-headers --enable-zlib --enable-libcurl --enable-introspection'
DEBUG: Executing command line:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_poppler/poppler/work/poppler-0.30.0" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-poppler-qt4 --disable-poppler-qt5 --disable-gtk-test --disable-silent-rules --enable-xpdf-headers --enable-zlib --enable-libcurl --enable-introspection 
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
^C
bash-3.2#

Manual execution of the command shown by port -f install completed successfully:

bash-3.2# cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_poppler/poppler/work/poppler-0.30.0" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-poppler-qt4 --disable-poppler-qt5 --disable-gtk-test --disable-silent-rules --enable-xpdf-headers --enable-zlib --enable-libcurl --enable-introspection
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 196608
checking how to convert x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0 file names to x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0 format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0 file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... dlltool
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... no
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking for dsymutil... dsymutil
checking for nmedit... nmedit
checking for lipo... lipo
checking for otool... otool
checking for otool64... no
checking for -single_module linker flag... yes
checking for -exported_symbols_list linker flag... yes
checking for -force_load linker flag... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fno-common -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fno-common -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin14.0.0 dyld
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for ld used by g++... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking whether the g++ linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fno-common -DPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fno-common -DPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... no
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin14.0.0 dyld
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... none needed
checking for gcc option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) none needed
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of g++... (cached) gcc3
checking for pkg-config... /opt/local/bin//pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes
checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... -D_THREAD_SAFE
checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... yes
checking for X... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking whether gettimeofday is declared... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for localtime_r... yes
checking for gmtime_r... yes
checking for rand_r... yes
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for nanosleep... yes
checking for LIBOPENJPEG... yes
checking for TIFFOpen in -ltiff... no
checking tiffio.h usability... no
checking tiffio.h presence... no
checking for tiffio.h... no
checking for popen... yes
checking for mkstemp... yes
checking for mkstemps... yes
checking for strcpy_s... no
checking for strcat_s... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no
checking for fseek64... no
checking for ftell64... no
checking for pread64... no
checking for lseek64... no
checking for inflate in -lz... yes
checking zlib.h usability... yes
checking zlib.h presence... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for LIBCURL... yes
checking for libjpeg6b... no
checking for libjpeg... no
checking jpeglib.h usability... no
checking jpeglib.h presence... no
checking for jpeglib.h... no
configure: WARNING: libjpeg not found. disable JPEG support.
checking libjpeg.h works correctly... no
checking libjpeg.h problem can be fixed by XMD_H macro... no, disable libjpeg
checking for LIBPNG... yes
checking for FREETYPE... yes
checking which font configuration to use... fontconfig
checking for FONTCONFIG... yes
checking for CAIRO... yes
checking for PDFTOCAIRO... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/mman.h usability... yes
checking sys/mman.h presence... yes
checking for sys/mman.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for POPPLER_GLIB... yes
checking for gobject-introspection... yes
checking for glib-mkenums... /opt/local/bin//glib-mkenums
checking for gtk-doc... no
configure: WARNING:
  You will not be able to create source packages with 'make dist'
  because gtk-doc >= 1.14 is not found.
checking for gtkdoc-check... no
checking for gtkdoc-check... no
checking for gtkdoc-rebase... no
checking for gtkdoc-mkpdf... no
checking whether to build gtk-doc documentation... no
checking for GTKDOC_DEPS... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking for working iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... -liconv
checking for iconv declaration... 
         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for LCMS... yes
checking for test data in /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_poppler/poppler/work/poppler-0.30.0/./../test... no
configure: WARNING:
 No test data found in /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_poppler/poppler/work/poppler-0.30.0/./../test.
 You will not be able to run 'make check' successfully.

 The test data is not included in the source packages
 and is also not part of the main git repository. Instead,
 you can checkout the test data from its own git
 repository with:

   git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test

 You should checkout the test data as a sibling of your
 poppler source folder or specify the location of your
 checkout with --with-testdatadir=/path/to/checkoutdir/test.

checking for  compiler flag... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating goo/Makefile
config.status: creating fofi/Makefile
config.status: creating splash/Makefile
config.status: creating poppler/Makefile
config.status: creating utils/Makefile
config.status: creating glib/Makefile
config.status: creating glib/poppler-features.h
config.status: creating glib/reference/Makefile
config.status: creating glib/reference/version.xml
config.status: creating glib/demo/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating qt4/Makefile
config.status: creating qt4/src/Makefile
config.status: creating qt4/tests/Makefile
config.status: creating qt4/demos/Makefile
config.status: creating qt5/Makefile
config.status: creating qt5/src/Makefile
config.status: creating qt5/tests/Makefile
config.status: creating qt5/demos/Makefile
config.status: creating cpp/Makefile
config.status: creating cpp/poppler-version.h
config.status: creating cpp/tests/Makefile
config.status: creating poppler.pc
config.status: creating poppler-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating poppler-cairo.pc
config.status: creating poppler-cairo-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating poppler-splash.pc
config.status: creating poppler-splash-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating poppler-glib.pc
config.status: creating poppler-glib-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating poppler-qt4.pc
config.status: creating poppler-qt4-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating poppler-qt5.pc
config.status: creating poppler-qt5-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating poppler-cpp.pc
config.status: creating poppler-cpp-uninstalled.pc
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: creating poppler/poppler-config.h
config.status: poppler/poppler-config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

Building poppler with support for:
  font configuration: fontconfig
  splash output:      yes
  cairo output:       yes
  qt4 wrapper:        no
  qt5 wrapper:        no
  glib wrapper:       yes
    introspection:    yes
  cpp wrapper:        yes
  use gtk-doc:        no
  use libjpeg:        no
  use libpng:         yes
  use libtiff:        no
  use zlib:           yes
  use libcurl:        yes
  use libopenjpeg:    yes
      with openjpeg1
  use cms:            yes
      with lcms2
  command line utils: yes
  test data dir:      /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_poppler/poppler/work/poppler-0.30.0/./../test

  Warning: Using libjpeg is recommended
  Warning: Using zlib is not totally safe
bash-3.2# 

[piranha32 (Jacek Radzikowski)]

Looks that the problem was related to the system upgrade. After Yosemite update from Apple was installed, the problem disappeared.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Interesting. Thanks for the update. Glad it's working.