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

[lyssdod (Alex R)]

This all has started from trying to install wine...versions I'm using:

$ uname -a
Darwin Mac-mini.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

$ sw_vers 
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.6.8
BuildVersion:	10K549

$ port version
Version: 2.6.4

Long story short, sudo port -d install wine results in:

DEBUG: dropping privileges: euid changed to 502, egid changed to 501.
DEBUG: Starting logging for bison
DEBUG: Mac OS X 10.6 (darwin/10.8.0) arch i386
DEBUG: MacPorts 2.6.4
DEBUG: Xcode 4.2
DEBUG: SDK 10.6
DEBUG: MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.6

<snip>

The following dependencies will be installed: 
 clang-3.4
 clang-3.7
 gettext
 libffi
 libiconv
 libtool
 llvm-3.4
 llvm-3.7
 python27
 python27-bootstrap
 sqlite3
Continue? [Y/n]: y
DEBUG: dlist_eval: all entries in dependency list have unsatisfied dependencies; can't process
DEBUG: can't read "portutil::autoconf::xcrun_path": no such variable
    while executing
"findBinary xcrun $portutil::autoconf::xcrun_path"
DEBUG: upgrade bison failed
    while executing
"macports::_upgrade_mport_deps $mport $target"
    (procedure "mportexec" line 46)
    invoked from within
"mportexec $workername $target"
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade bison failed

I don't think that version is much relevant, because it has happened on 2.6.3 as well :(

Maybe it's problem in the port itself, because other ports have installed successfully (including winetricks)

[lyssdod (Alex R)]

sudo port -d install wine

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The message about xcrun_path is probably irrelevant.

The relevant message is probably "dlist_eval: all entries in dependency list have unsatisfied dependencies" which might indicate circular dependencies, which are not allowed in MacPorts but there is no way to prevent them from happening so sometimes changes to ports do over time inadvertently introduce them.

Looking at the output of port deps of each of those ports, if you can piece together what the circular dependency is, let us know. Otherwise, you may be able to avoid it or to narrow it down by trying to install some of those dependencies individually.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Looks like this is probably the result of adding use_autoreconf yes to libffi ([551b6d48e08d1d1123399143bc7fd883e7a1c82e/macports-ports]), which adds a dependency on autoconf->gettext->clang-3.4->libffi.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 15d3bea9059098aeacdf775c1e1418d37f8e3099/macports-ports (master):

libffi: only autoreconf on Big Sur and later

Older OS versions don't support arm64 anyway. This fixes a circular
dependency with clang on 10.6.

Fixes: #61567

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please reopen if the problem persists with that change.