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

#32141

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

#35370

hamcrest-core fails to build on Mountain Lion

#36101

apache2 @2.2.22_2 startup item

#55238

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

#55920

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

#56898

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

#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

#59469

mosh @1.3.2: mosh-server crashing

#59925

pypy @7.3.0: reinplace /MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET/s/10\.\([0-9]*\)/10.7/ didn't change anything

#60300

petsc @3.12.4: clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault: 11

#60353

macos-fortress-dshield: unrecognized option: -replace

#60477

stack @2.3.1_0: Undefined symbols: _utimensat

#60650

osquery @4.3.0: error: use of undeclared identifier '_SC_PHYS_PAGES'

#60655

flatbuffers: error: use of undeclared identifier 'asprintf_l'

#60695

py27-scipy @1.2.3: ImportError: cannot import name _distributor_init

#60769

svn2git @1.0.18: error: Qt requires a C++11 compiler and yours does not seem to be that.

#61043

stack: configure failure: Segmentaion fault: 11

#61076

wxWidgets-3.2 @3.1.4: error: use of undeclared identifier 'LSCopyDefaultApplicationURLForContentType'

#61280

clang-3.4: error: invalid version number in '-mlinker-version=6.'

#61416

hdf5 @1.10.7_0+cxx+hl: error: initializing 'H5A_t *' (aka 'struct H5A_t *') with an expression of type 'const H5A_t *' (aka 'const struct H5A_t *') discards qualifiers

#62455

pngpaste: error: use of undeclared identifier 'NSBitmapImageFileTypeGIF'

#62671

gdal @3.2.2: Undefined symbols "NASAKeywordHandler::GetKeyword(char const*, char const*)" etc.

#64200

par2 @0.8.1+universal: Undefined symbols for architecture i386: ___atomic_compare_exchange ___atomic_load

#64667

mpv @0.34.1: error: expected parameter declarator (static_assert undefined)

#64722

mpv installs an app that doesn't open

#64846

terraformer: build times out on 10.8

#65564

xorg-server-legacy segfaults on xterm invocation on mountain lion

#65569

emacs and legacy-support: `openat` broken?

#65621

binutils @2.38: fails to build on <10.11 due to syntax error near unexpected token

#65763

ld64-274 - universal variant -- Linker Failed - Undefined symbols for architecture i386 & /opt/local/lib/libxar.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format

#65893

fluidsynth @2.2.8 fails to build - Problem with MIDIPacketNext(packet) macro

#65896

emacs fails to compile on old Mac <= 10.7

#65897

various gtk+quartz apps do not display characters on 10.5, 10.6, 10.7

#66054

ruby31 fails to build on 10.8.5: No rule to make target `all'

#66378

llvm-13 +universal build fails due to architecture of /opt/local/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib

#66388

yt-dlp @2022.11.11: proxy mode is broken for some reason

#66639

ruby31 3.1.3: fails to build on OS X 10.8 and 10.9

#66640

mame @0.226_7+tools: error: no member named 'get_io_service' in 'asio::basic_stream_socket<asio::ip::tcp>'

#66670

android-platform-tools @33.0.3: adb binary uses SSE4.1 opcodes

#66695

hunspell @1.7.2_0: error: no matching member function for call to 'append'

#66700

KeePassXC and qt5 Issues on Lion

#66736

go-1.4 @1.4.3_1 fails to build on Mtn Lion

#67101

apr-util doesn't always use -arch flags

#67145

R @4.3.0: configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries?

#67166

mpv @0.35.1: C11 atomics are required; you may need a newer compiler

#67169

meld displays file table intermittently

#67214

catgirl also needs a substitute for memset_s (plus a couple of trivial fixes)

#67516

opencascade @7.7.0: ld: internal error: atom not found in symbolIndex(__ZN11opencascade13type_instanceI18NCollection_BufferE3getEv)

#67565

soundtouch: build fails for 10.7: c++ compiler cannot create executables

#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

#36781

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

#36869

iTunesMatchHelper: Lion buildbot fails

#37030

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

#62087

wxWidgets-3.2 @3.1.4_1 failed to configure in macosx 10.7.5 (Lion)