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

#30951

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

#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

#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

#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

#35676

ocaml native binaries crash often

#36101

apache2 @2.2.22_2 startup item

#36477

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

#44224

root5: fails to compile with libc++ on 10.7 (error: no matching function for call to 'isnan')

#46287

harfbuzz-icu @0.9.37_0: cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-std=c++0x"

#51007

wavpack @4.75.2 build failure OSX Lion

#51287

Inkscape crashes on startup if enchant is installed with +applespell

#51312

pkgconfig @0.29.1: gmessages.c:1077:3: error: data argument not used by format string [-Wformat-extra-args]

#52036

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

#52046

jsoncpp @1.7.4: error: no type named 'unique_ptr' in namespace 'std'

#52050

libsodium @1.0.11: error: passing '__m128i' to parameter of incompatible type 'const __m128i *'

#52611

mongodb @3.2.10_0: error: chosen constructor is explicit in copy-initialization

#53525

valgrind: doesn't build with an old clang

#53719

highlight @3.35 does not build with libstdc++ because of missing 'to_string’ declaration "in this scope"

#53859

openmpi-gcc45 @1.10.3: build hangs forever

#54358

texlive-bin @2017 won't build on Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.8, because "A compiler with support for C++11 language features is required"

#54363

ghc: needs a runtime dependency for it's build compiler

#54475

texlive-bin @2017: Failed to build texlive-bin 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

#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