stellarium @23.4_0+RemoteControl+python312: error: no template named 'auto_ptr' in namespace 'std'

[rernenwein]

i update regularely stellarium app and use stellarium every 2 or 3 month

before update stellarium crashed every time i launched (last time i tested successfully was 3 month ago) then i found that a new update of macos was available and also a new version of stellarium

full of hope that i will a fresh version that will correct the launch problem i updated macos and i am running Ventura 13.6.4

then after reboot, i launched port selfupdate port upgrade outdated

the build crash

--->  Computing dependencies for stellarium
--->  Fetching archive for stellarium
--->  Attempting to fetch stellarium-23.4_0+RemoteControl+python312.darwin_22.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/stellarium
--->  Attempting to fetch stellarium-23.4_0+RemoteControl+python312.darwin_22.x86_64.tbz2 from https://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/stellarium
--->  Attempting to fetch stellarium-23.4_0+RemoteControl+python312.darwin_22.x86_64.tbz2 from https://fra.de.packages.macports.org/stellarium
--->  Fetching distfiles for stellarium
--->  Verifying checksums for stellarium
--->  Extracting stellarium
--->  Applying patches to stellarium
--->  Configuring stellarium
--->  Building stellarium                                
Error: Failed to build stellarium: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_science_stellarium/stellarium/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug.

full log file is attached

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

:info:build /opt/local/include/exiv2/value.hpp:54:17: error: no template named 'auto_ptr' in namespace 'std'; did you mean simply 'auto_ptr'?
:info:build         typedef std::auto_ptr<Value> AutoPtr;
:info:build                 ^~~~~
:info:build /opt/local/include/exiv2/config.h:105:3: note: 'auto_ptr' declared here
:info:build   using auto_ptr = std::unique_ptr<T>;
:info:build   ^

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

stellarium build crash log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We had successful builds of this version of stellarium on our buildbot system, so it must be solvable. Unfortunately the port is not distributable so you can't just have the binaries we created, instead you have to compile it from source yourself, so we have to figure out what's going wrong.

Not sure if related, but #68991 said a new version of exiv2 was required to build stellarium, and I explained there why updating exiv2 to that new version could not happen right away.

But then stellarium was indeed updated to a new version a couple days ago.

The stellarium port does not mention exiv2, and yet your build is trying to use it. Maybe that's the problem: the build needs to be told not to use exiv2 even if it is installed.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Looks like exiv2 is used optionally by stellarium's LensDistortionEstimator plugin.

Here's my fix: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/22371

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In b8ee65a5f14be6ce5987f74737d1ae7f6cfcda68/macports-ports (master):

stellarium: Don't use exiv2

Closes: #69170