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()"

#32817

postgresql91-server @9.1.2_0 initialization fails

#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

#55601

cdo @1.9.2: error: variable has incomplete type 'struct mach_task_basic_info'

#55771

textmate2 @2.0-rc.4: Build fails with SDK < 10.11

#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

#56516

bzflag @2.4.14: error: A c++ compiler with C++0x support is required to build BZFlag

#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

#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

#42497

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

#48183

libetonyek @0.1.2: build failure on Lion

#49841

Building ffmpeg with avfoundation on OSX Lion

#50280

arm-none-eabi-gcc @5.1.0_1 does not build on OS X Lion using clang

#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

#56585

Compile errors installing nodejs9 or nodejs10 on Lion