El Capitan Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration.

Updating MacPorts Base

MacPorts must be re-installed in a version configured for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

Ensure you have at least the command line tools installed by running xcode-select --install from a Terminal. Make sure to also run this even if you have Xcode installed, because some ports fail to build without it. You also have to run sudo xcodebuild -license after doing this.

If you get a CoreSimulator error message

Ensure your macports user has the correct home directory. (#49101)

Run the following (#45445):

sudo launchctl asuser id -u macports sudo -u macports xcrun simctl list

Tickets for Broken Ports

#45560

csound @5.16.6: KeyError: 10

#48471

FSF gcc48 fails to compile projects on El Capitan due to OS X SDK bug in Availability.h

#49069

emacs-mac-app @5.9: error: no type or protocol named 'WebFrameLoadDelegate'

#49094

phantomjs 2.0 fails to build on OS X 10.11 El Capitan

#49104

star @1.5.2: mkdir: /etc/default: Operation not permitted

#49129

HandBrakeCLI @0.10.0: configure.py: error: invalid xcconfig: osx1011.x86_64

#49290

mongodb does not start after upgrade to El Capitan

#50040

Aquaterm 1.1.1 El Capitan build failure

#50075

zeroc-ice35: error: expression with side effects will be evaluated despite being used as an operand to 'typeid'

#50138

optpp: ld: framework not found vecLib

#51133

Xcode 7.3 bug: __DATA/__thread_bss extends beyond end of file

#52245

cups-pdf mainly broken on El Capitan OS X 10.11

#53161

tuntaposx: kernel extensions have to be signed

#53204

Error: Processing of port netcdf-fortran failed

#53861

gmake @4.2.1: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime

#54781

osxfuse @3.6.3: use of undeclared identifiers 'VOL_CAP_FMT_NO_IMMUTABLE_FILES' 'VOL_CAP_FMT_NO_PERMISSIONS'

#60477

stack @2.3.1_0: Undefined symbols: _utimensat

#62007

postgresql11-server @11.10 startupitem don't start

#62455

pngpaste: error: use of undeclared identifier 'NSBitmapImageFileTypeGIF'

#62459

wxMaxima @21.02.0: error: unknown type name 'nullptr_t'; did you mean 'std::nullptr_t'?

#62501

py27-sqlalchemy @1.4.1_0 broke buildbot-0.8

#62709

libgcc10 @ 10.3.0_0+universal.darwin_15.i386-x86_64: libgcc/libgcc2.c:1989:10: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction: 4 building mulxc3

#62735

optool @ 0.1_0+universal.darwin_15.i386-x86_64: synthesized property ('rule' | 'position') naming problems

#62940

sqlitebrowser @ 3.12.2: Could not resolve SDK Path for 'macosx10.11'

#63402

ccache @ 4.4_0 error: static_assert failed "unique_ptr constructed with null function pointer deleter"

#63418

mkvtoolnix @41.0.0_1: fatal error: static_assert failed due to requirement 'sizeof(char) == 0' "If you want to output boost::optional, include header <boost/optional/optional_io.hpp>"

#63509

openjdk @ 11 – temurin renaming breaks (?) directory name convention

#63558

qscintilla-qt5 @ 2.13.0_0: Could not resolve SDK Path for 'macosx10.11'

#63597

graphviz-gui @2.49.1_0.darwin_15.x86_64: unknown type name 'NSToolbarItemIdentifier'

#64344

scrcpy @1.21: clang: error: unknown argument: '-flto-jobs=0'

#64478

openjdk17-openj9: crashing on El Captain

#64564

unison @ 2.51.5+aqua: There is no aqua GUI

#64835

openssh @8.9p1_3+gsskex+kerberos5+xauth.darwin_15.x86_64: Failed to patch openssh: command execution failed

#65175

openal-soft @ 1.22.0_0+universal.darwin_15.i386-x86_64: inline declarations follow non-inline definitions

#65193

arti @0.3.0: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_clock_gettime_nsec_np"

#50148

sudo port install kate goes to sleep on El Capitan 10.11.2

#61612

xorg-libx11 @1.7.0 variant +docs does not build on El Capitan, OK on Big Sur (Java problem?)

#61688

zettlr @1.8.0 on El Capitan fails rev-upgrade, missing system MediaPlayer framework

#62293

clang-9.0 @ 9.0.1_3: Build failure on El Capitan with Xcode 7.3.1

#62337

go @1.16 fails to build on el capitan

#62425

py-pikepdf @2.8.0.post2 - Build on El Capitan needs a more modern compiler

#62988

git @2.31.1: gitk does not start on el capitan

#63405

openssh @8.4p1_6 on El Capitan broken today - also keychain gives error message.