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

#20309

qt4-x11 doesn't support 10.6 or later

#30049

GraphicsMagick fix for 10.7

#30609

expat @2.0.1 +universal Configure failure

#30657

Pallet crashed during port upgrade

#30679

qt3-mac: #error "This version of Mac OS X is unsupported"

#30951

Samba3 not reading groups resulting in logon failure. (Lion)

#31256

ctags 5.8 creates improper tags file when compiled with llvm

#31528

rdesktop 1.6.0: segmentation fault

#31685

boxes not working (in Lion?)

#31736

gcc44, gcc45 precompiled headers broken on lion

#31800

Mozart fails to build on Lion

#31989

php52 +pear: [install-pear-installer] Segmentation fault: 11

#32141

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

#32817

postgresql91-server @9.1.2_0 initialization fails

#33802

gtk2 build failure on 10.8: incomplete definition of type 'struct _ipp_s'

#34012

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

#35066

grace @5.1.22_6 - Grace crash on Print

#35328

w3m @0.5.3 build failure: func.c:200:24: error: use of undeclared identifier 'functable'

#35370

hamcrest-core fails to build on Mountain Lion

#35574

postgresql91 fails to build at contrib/uuid-ossp under OS X 10.8

#35583

openssl @1.0.1c openssl configure fails on Mountain Lion

#35676

ocaml native binaries crash often

#35790

strigi: error: no member named 'tm' in the global namespace

#35899

p5.12-net-cups @0.610.0, Revision 2 (perl), 'cups/image.h' file not found, build failure

#36101

apache2 @2.2.22_2 startup item

#36296

OS X Mountain Lion has no /var/log/secure.log for sshguard to read

#36477

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

#36672

netatalk: fatal error: 'netat/appletalk.h' file not found

#37060

kdebase3-3.5.10-7 make failed!

#37066

p5-shell-parser: sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

#38744

Maxima .28.0_3 +printable_doc does not build on 10.8

#41695

vim @7.4.052_0+huge+python27 build failure

#30787

xcircuit @3.4.30 crashes on Lion

#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

#31891

Python loading system numpy in preference to MacPorts version (Lion)

#32719

mpd crash on Lion when playing m4a files

#33859

p5.12-gtk2 does not compile on MacOS X Lion

#34247

libcdio 0.83 misses osx driver in Lion and possibly Snow Leopard

#34675

gdk-pixbuf fails to compile on x86_64 (Lion)

#34876

dircproxy 1.0.5 does not compile with clang/llvm 3.0 on OS X Lion

#35419

gcc48 fails to build on Mountain 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

#38238

tktable: build fails on Mountain Lion, error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _XDisplay'

#41924

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

#42194

Undefined symbols upgrading qpdf on Lion

#42497

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

#42910

valgrind{,-devel} +gcc48 +openmpi not building on mountain lion