installing grep aborts with error code 71

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

[macports-ports d3b59876b6dde9a4a26135a9c6b59320080eb23f] [macOS 10.7.5 11G63] [Xcode 4.6.3 4H1503]

Installing grep fails:

> sudo port install grep
--->  Computing dependencies for grep
--->  Fetching distfiles for grep
--->  Verifying checksums for grep
--->  Extracting grep
--->  Configuring grep
Error: Failed to configure grep:
  configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_macports_macports- ports_sysutils_grep/grep/main.log
  for details.

Log file attached.

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

Main.log file of failing grep installation.

[kencu (Ken)]

thanks. A puzzle at this moment as grep recently built on every buildbot <​http://packages.macports.org/grep/>, so it's something unique. I see you're on 10.7 setup to libc++. Should still be fine. Will check.

[kencu (Ken)]

you appear to be running MacPorts base development version. The configure phase ends with a file not found error, and your path seems short on entries : PATH='/usr/bin:/Users/Lemberg/This'

can you post up your .profile?

cd ~
cat .profile

thanks

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

MacPorts overrides the PATH completely for compilation phases. The problem was probably introduced when configuring this custom MacPorts installation. Also check binpath in ${prefix}/etc/macports/macports.conf.

Note the guide also covers this: ​https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source.multiple

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

Here's my .profile file:

export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-darwinlegacy:$PATH"

export PS1='\u:\w> '
export LESS="-M -I -R"
export EDITOR=joe

and my macports.conf file (beautified to avoid long lines). Note that directory This is a test mentioned in binpath doesn't exist.

prefix                  /opt/local
portdbpath              /opt/local/var/macports
binpath                 /Users/Lemberg/This is a Test\
                        :/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-darwinlegacy\
                        :/opt/local/bin\
                        :/opt/local/sbin\
                        :/bin\
                        :/sbin\
                        :/usr/bin\
                        :/usr/sbin
applications_dir        /Applications/MacPorts
frameworks_dir          /opt/local/Library/Frameworks
sources_conf            /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
variants_conf           /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf
cxx_stdlib              libc++
buildfromsource         always
universal_archs         x86_64 i386

Up to now I was able to install all Macports packages; this is the first problem ever encountered.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Evidently, spaces are not supported in binpath. Rename your "This is a Test" directory so that its name does not contain spaces, update binpath in macports.conf with the new name, and try again.

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

Worked, thanks. It's quite interesting that this port fails with my old binpath, while hundreds of other port updates didn't have a single problem – I had added this directory for testing purposes two months ago, and all updates since then worked flawlessly.