error in building gexiv2 0.10.9 on 10.6.8

[MarcChenevier]

to get Gimp I am stopped at

Fetching distfiles for gexiv2
--->  Attempting to fetch gexiv2-0.10.9.tar.xz from https://distfiles.macports.org/gexiv2
--->  Verifying checksums for gexiv2                                                 
--->  Extracting gexiv2
--->  Configuring gexiv2
--->  Building gexiv2
Error: Failed to build gexiv2: command execution failed

my OS 10.6.8

[MarcChenevier]

a part of console report

[kencu (Ken)]

It does build on 10.6.8:

$ port -v installed gexiv2
The following ports are currently installed:
  gexiv2 @0.10.9_1+python27+python36 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='x86_64' date='2018-12-23T14:23:26-0800'

so it's likely just the old gcc-4.2 compiler that is defaulting here can't build it (I build with clang-5.0 by default).

This is a common problem with the old OS versions, as a lot of software would not attempt to maintain compatibility with gcc-4.2 any longer.

You can help us! If you're running Snow Leopard and you come across something like this, try using a newer compiler like this:

sudo port clean gexiv2
sudo port -v install gexiv2 configure.compiler=macports-clang-5.0

and if that works, you can add it to your tickets to help us figure out the compilers that do work.

[MarcChenevier]

I try that you suggest without succes I join my session.file macportsession29_04_19

[MarcChenevier]

record of my session with clang 5.0

[kencu (Ken)]

well, you overcame the compiler error and got further, but then you ran into another error that we are are working on here:

<​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58412>

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

In b04c3ce79b899609bf6f3996c38b2a47844c7d18/macports-ports (master):

gexiv2: update version 0.10.9->0.10.10

Fixes #57881
See #58407