macports hangs configuring ghostscript while checking for gcc

[DavidSagan (David Sagan)]

See the attached log file. The last line of the file is:

checking for gcc... /usr/bin/clang

macports hangs here (over half a day). Using OS 10.10.3 "which gcc" gives:

/opt/local/bin/gcc

And: mc66:~/Bmad/bmad_dist/regression_tests> gcc --version

gcc (MacPorts gcc48 4.8.4_0) 4.8.4

Using macports version 2.3.3 Using Xcode version 6.3.2

What to do?

[DavidSagan (David Sagan)]

Also the command that macports hung on is:

sudo port -d -v upgrade outdated

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

We've seen a couple of these recently, and somehow, there's always some standard process hanging for reasons we do not understand. In your case it's probably the check after the clang one (which probably checks whether the compiler actually works). Finding out what goes wrong here involves low-level debugging which nobody had the time to do yet (or is capable of).

We're speculating the issue may be due to Gatekeeper, but we really don't know. In any case, so far rebooting has always fixed it, even though that seems like a very Windows-y approach to things.

[DavidSagan (David Sagan)]

Replying to cal@…:

We've seen a couple of these recently, and somehow, there's always some standard process hanging for reasons we do not understand. In your case it's probably the check after the clang one (which probably checks whether the compiler actually works). Finding out what goes wrong here involves low-level debugging which nobody had the time to do yet (or is capable of).

We're speculating the issue may be due to Gatekeeper, but we really don't know. In any case, so far rebooting has always fixed it, even though that seems like a very Windows-y approach to things.

A reboot did fix the problem. Thanks!

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Great! Glad you could fix it. Eventually, we'll figure out what the problem is.