q @7.11: build fails with readline 6.3+

[elencolombi@…]

need to install these [ * python26 * py26-numpy * py26-scipy * py26-pyqt4 * py26-mysql * py26-lxml] to use ETE

this is what I get

it060432:~ $ sudo port install [py26-scipy]
Password:
--->  Cleaning e
--->  Computing dependencies for q
--->  Building q
Error: org.macports.build for port q returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port q for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_q/q/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: Processing of port q failed

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Please clean, try installing again, and attach that log if it fails

% sudo port clean q
% sudo port install q

[elencolombi@…]

I did it, still error

it060432:~ $ sudo port clean q
--->  Cleaning q
it060432:~ $ sudo port install q
--->  Computing dependencies for q
--->  Fetching archive for q
--->  Attempting to fetch q-7.11_3.darwin_14.i386.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/q
--->  Attempting to fetch q-7.11_3.darwin_14.i386.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/q
--->  Attempting to fetch q-7.11_3.darwin_14.i386.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/q
--->  Fetching distfiles for q
--->  Verifying checksums for q
--->  Extracting q
--->  Applying patches to q
--->  Configuring q
--->  Building q
Error: org.macports.build for port q returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port q for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_q/q/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: Processing of port q failed

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

And you still have not attached the log. The log is the file mentioned in the error message.

[elencolombi@…]

added.

[elencolombi@…]

also tried

$ sudo port clean q
$ sudo port selfupdate
$ sudo port install q

but still the same error message....

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thank you for the report. The errors in the log have to do with CPPFunction, which is a readline function which was renamed to rl_completion_func_t a long time ago, and in readline 6.3, the old CPPFunction name was finally removed. I'll see if I can patch q to fix this.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to elencolombi@…:

need to install these [ * python26 * py26-numpy * py26-scipy * py26-pyqt4 * py26-mysql * py26-lxml] to use ETE

this is what I get

it060432:~ $ sudo port install [py26-scipy]
Password:
--->  Cleaning e
--->  Computing dependencies for q

Note that you don't actually need q. MacPorts only tried to install it because you used square brackets in your command. You should instead have typed:

sudo port install py26-scipy

Run this now; it should work fine and will not require q.

To explain why MacPorts tried to install q: When you typed sudo port install [py26-scipy], with the square brackets around the name, that was interpreted as a character set. MacPorts uses the Tcl function ​string match to process your input, which handles square brackets in the following way:

[chars]

Matches any character in the set given by chars. If a sequence of the form x-y appears in chars, then any character between x and y, inclusive, will match.

So when you typed [py26-scipy] that was expanded to the following list of ports:

• p
• y
• 2
• all characters between 6 and s inclusive: 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s
• c
• i
• p
• y

We don't have ports by most of those names; the only ports we do have are e, q and R, so MacPorts tried to install those. Your transcript above shows that e was successfully installed, and then you got the error on q. You don't need them for what you're trying to do. You can clean q and uninstall e.

sudo port clean q
sudo port uninstall e

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Replying to elencolombi@…:

need to install these [ * python26 * py26-numpy * py26-scipy * py26-pyqt4 * py26-mysql * py26-lxml] to use ETE

Note that the best way to install ETE in MacPorts is to just run:

sudo port install py27-ete2

This is recommended on the ​ETE project's download page.

Note that this will use Python 2.7, not 2.6. We used to have py26-ete2 in MacPorts but removed it, because we are in the process of removing all Python modules for Python versions earlier than 2.7 (and for Python 3 versions earlier than 3.4).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

The errors in the log have to do with CPPFunction, which is a readline function which was renamed to rl_completion_func_t a long time ago, and in readline 6.3, the old CPPFunction name was finally removed. I'll see if I can patch q to fix this.

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