dependency problem on Lion (probably related to gcc9?)

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

I successfully installed MacPorts 2.6.2 with

install_dir=/opt/lilypond/2.19.83
./configure --without-startupitems \
            --prefix=${install_dir} \
            --with-applications-dir=${install_dir}/Applications

Now I'm trying to run

sudo port -N mpkg lilypond-devel +mactex +perl5_28 +python37

This installs a bunch of packages without problems. However, it eventually aborts with

:debug:main dlist_eval: all entries in dependency list have unsatisfied dependencies; can't process

I've attached the main.log file.

Why does it abort? Looking at the log file I can't deduce which dependency is actually missing....

[I have mactex installed and properly registered in macports.conf's binpath variable.]

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Are you able to port install gcc9? If not, it's not a problem with lilypond-devel.

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

No. Attached you can find the output of

sudo /opt/lilypond/2.19.83/bin/port -d -N install gcc9 &> install-gcc9.log

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

Poking around, I found the following small failing example.

sudo /opt/lilypond/2.19.83/bin/port -N install clang-3.4
--->  Computing dependencies for clang-3.4
--->  Dependencies to be installed: libxml2 icu clang-3.7 clang-3.4 llvm-3.7
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port clang-3.4 failed

Note how clang-3.4 appears in the list of dependencies, too. Complete (small) log file attached.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Is your ports tree up to date? (sudo port sync) This may be the problem that was fixed in [58c748e62680013d146097d30c3450a827c2d716/macports-ports].

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

Well, just to be sure I've just tried

sudo /opt/lilypond/2.19.83/bin/port -N selfupdate
sudo /opt/lilypond/2.19.83/bin/port sync
sudo /opt/lilypond/2.19.83/bin/port -N mpkg lilypond-devel +mactex +perl5_28 +python37

and it still fails.

[kencu (Ken)]

clean (of course) and try again installing just clang-3.4, as you did above. If that still fails, please attach the product of port rdeps clang-3.4. You may be aware there is a problem with circular deps on 10.6 and 10.7 installing icu for which there is a 30+ reply PR going on right now in the PR queue. One might ponder you are having that exact issue...

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

Will try that later today. What exactly should I clean?

[kencu (Ken)]

Replying to lemzwerg:

Will try that later today. What exactly should I clean?

well, everything, but certainly everything with currently actively failing builds (lilypong, clang-3.4, icu, whatever else).

Every once in a while I go into

${prefix}/var/macports/build

and look to see what failed build remnants remain in there, and clean them out either with sudo port clean XYZ, or if that doesn't work (it doesn't always, for various reasons i won't go into here), then just brute-force sudo rm -rf the_very_long_folder_name

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

I did all the steps you mentioned (including a self-update). Still no success. Attached is the rdeps output.

[kencu (Ken)]

yes, you have the icu circular dependency that will be addressed by the PR in the PR queue once it is committed. <​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5627>. Until it is committed, you're busted. Hopefully it will fix it up for you.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

What clang versions do you currently have active? Does deactivating everything newer than 3.4 help? If not, what does port rdeps clang-3.4 say?

[kencu (Ken)]

He posted that already, two lines up.

[lemzwerg (Werner Lemberg)]

The dependency problems seems to be solved, thanks. However, a build of clang-3.4 now fails, but I will report that separately.