MacVim @9.0.release176_0 "Error: Port MacVim is still broken after rebuilding it more than 3 times."

[rufty (Bill Hill)]

Ran "port upgrade" which pulled in an update for MacVim. I'm running +huge+python311, so a rebuild. But got the message: "Error: Port MacVim is still broken after rebuilding it more than 3 times." Tried installing the precompiled binary port, and that also gave: "Found 2 broken files, matching files to ports" and triggered a recompile, too. Looking at the output of "port -d -y rev-upgrade" it looks like the problem files are: /Applications/MacPorts/MacVim.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/B/Sparkle and /Applications/MacPorts/MacVim.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/B/Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Updater which are for the automatic updates? So aren't needed anyway???

[rufty (Bill Hill)]

Output of "port -d -y rev-upgrade"

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Yes, Sparkle is for automatic updates, and you're right, we don't need or want Sparkle in MacPorts, but many ports still have Sparkle because it's not always straightforward to remove it; the developers don't always anticipate that anyone would want to do so.

Did it say in what way those files were broken?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign:

Did it say in what way those files were broken?

Oh, it's in your log:

Could not open /System/Library/Frameworks/UniformTypeIdentifiers.framework/Versions/A/UniformTypeIdentifiers: Error opening or reading file (referenced from /Applications/MacPorts/MacVim.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/B/Sparkle)

So this looks like #67097.

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

Following this... I get exactly the same error on 10.13 same MacVim release:

--->  Computing dependencies for MacVim
--->  Installing MacVim @9.0.release176_0+huge
--->  Activating MacVim @9.0.release176_0+huge
--->  Cleaning MacVim
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  Found 2 broken files, matching files to ports
Error: Port MacVim is still broken after rebuilding it more than 3 times.
Error: Please run port -d -y rev-upgrade and use the output to report a bug.
Error: rev-upgrade failed: Port MacVim still broken after rebuilding 3 times
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there
is a bug.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Does this still occur with MacVim @9.0.release178?

[rufty (Bill Hill)]

MacVim @9.0.release178_0+huge+python311 has built and installed successfully. Thanks. Bill