failed to build pth under macOS 10.4.11

[dzhub]

While trying to "upgrade outdated" after "port selfupdate" I got this error:

/usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: -compatibility_version

Is there something I can do about it?

Thanks for any help :-)

[kencu (Ken)]

please try this:

sudo port clean pth
sudo port -v install cctools
sudo port -v install ld64

and then

sudo port -v install pth

and report back, with another log if it fails again.

[kencu (Ken)]

Although you do need to do those things I mentioned, and to make sure that you followed the instructions to install the compiler apple-gcc42 with the -bootstrap variant, even after doing that, you may have issues:

:info:build ./libtool --mode=link --quiet /opt/local/bin/gcc-apple-4.2 -o libpth.la pth_debug.lo pth_ring.lo pth_pqueue.lo pth_time.lo pth_errno.lo pth_mctx.lo pth_uctx.lo pth_tcb.lo pth_sched.lo pth_attr.lo pth_lib.lo pth_event.lo pth_data.lo pth_clean.lo pth_cancel.lo pth_msg.lo pth_sync.lo pth_fork.lo pth_util.lo pth_high.lo pth_syscall.lo pth_ext.lo pth_compat.lo pth_string.lo \
392	:info:build -rpath /opt/local/lib -version-info `./shtool version -lc -dlibtool pth_vers.c`

the link want to use -rpath, which Tiger's linker doesn't support.

I'm working on that issue...

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

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[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Might benefit from autoreconf, given that upstream last updated in 2006.

[dzhub]

Sorry to reply only today -- it seems, this has worked on my machine:

sudo port clean pth
sudo port -v install cctools
sudo port -v install ld64

But after that MacPorts automatically startet to rebuild a bunch of broken ports, and is still rebuilding. I dont recall all of them, but it seems, it managed to compile and install libgcc7.4 for the first time on my machine. Now, the system is compiling and installing libgcc6.5...

All looks well for now, and much better than expected... :-)