Lion Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration if you upgraded from a previous version of Mac OS X. For issues after upgrading to Xcode 4.3 read the ProblemHotlist.

If you have found a new issue which is not yet listed on this page, please report to the MailingLists or file a ​ticket.

Tickets for Broken Ports

#30657

Pallet crashed during port upgrade

#31528

rdesktop 1.6.0: segmentation fault

#32141

munin node fail to update with "Plugin XYZ Can't drop privileges: setrgid()"

#34012

openal: error: 'CAStreamBasicDescription.h' file not found

#35370

hamcrest-core fails to build on Mountain Lion

#36101

apache2 @2.2.22_2 startup item

#36477

transmission-x11 Unable to install transmission-x11 on Mountain Lion

#51287

Inkscape crashes on startup if enchant is installed with +applespell

#52036

go @1.7_0: crypto/x509 build fails with "'SecCertificateCopyNormalizedSubjectContent' is unavailable"

#53525

valgrind: doesn't build with an old clang

#54638

mesa @17.1.6_0: error: implicit declaration of function 'fstatat' is invalid in C99

#55238

mysql57 @5.7.17: error: no member named 'ifr_ifrn' in 'ifreq'

#55444

clang-3.8 and later: All compilers are either blacklisted or unavailable

#55784

rust @1.24.1: Symbol not found: _CCDigestGetOutputSizeFromRef

#55850

seqan-apps @2.2.0: fatal error: 'cinttypes' file not found

#55888

go @1.10: Assertion failed: (ref_addr_die != NULL), function AppendDependants

#55920

FreeRDP @2.0.0-rc1: error: unknown type name 'AudioFormatID'

#55999

rpcgen-mt @327266: svn: invalid option: --ignore-keywords

#56336

Failed to configure llvm-5.0: configure failure: command execution failed

#56463

htop: compiler on older systems

#56500

pacvim fails to build without C++11 support

#56811

paq8 - Port paq8 is still broken after rebuilding it more than 3 times on Max OS X 10.7.5 Lion

#56898

osxfuse @3.8.0: destroot fails: osxfuse.fs/Contents/Resources/load_osxfuse": no such file or directory

#56952

py-pyqt5 @5.10.1: fails to build on 10.7

#57359

graphite2 @1.3.12: error: unknown type name '_GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION'

#57520

py-pyopencl: Does not build on libstdc++ systems; does not honor MacPorts build flags

#57590

py-fiona @1.7.13: fatal error: 'type_traits' file not found

#57677

openjdk11 install finds broken files after multiple install attempts

#57681

libwpd-0.10: Needs cxx11 1.1 portgroup

#30829

munin installation fails on Lion with no JRE installed

#30873

net/mrtg @2.17.2 rateup Lion crash - WARNING: rateup died from Signal 11

#31312

yap fails to build under lion

#36522

commons-daemon java 1.7 mountain lion fails

#36781

cyrus-sasl2: use Heimdal instead of MIT Kerberos on Lion and later

#36792

JAVA_HOME lost when building tomcat6 on Mountain Lion

#36869

iTunesMatchHelper: Lion buildbot fails

#37030

Digikam hangs at "Reading database" on start in Mountain Lion

#41924

v8 @3.23.15: build fails on lion buildslave and icu confusion

#42497

boost +universal fails with "bad register name" over a million times

#48183

libetonyek @0.1.2: build failure on Lion

#50481

qt4-mac: libc++ under Lion

#54633

ffmpeg, ffmpeg-devel: not distributable on Snow Leopard or Lion

#55710

Unable to get mariadb-10.2 & mariadb-10.1 or working on OS X Lion