wiki:SequoiaProblems

macOS Sequoia Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration.

Check the status of Sequoia builders ​here if you prefer to install prebuilt binaries. It can take several weeks after a new MacOS release before builders are working for both x86_64 and arm64.

Updating MacPorts Base

MacPorts must be installed in a version configured for macOS 15 Sequoia. If you update from an older OS version, you need to run port migrate to reinstall MacPorts base and installed ports that are not OS-independent (see link above).

Ensure you have Xcode 16.0 or greater installed and selected (e.g. sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer), and that you have the command line tools installed (xcode-select --install). (See below for a potential problem when upgrading from older CLT versions.) You also have to agree to the license by running sudo xcodebuild -license.

There have been reports that the -license option might not be sufficient alone, and following command might be required to agree to the license: sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch

Compiling C++ fails

The installer for the Command Line Tools for Xcode 16 does not delete a directory that was installed by some older versions of the CLTs, which unfortunately causes clang++ to look in the wrong place for C++ headers. The majority of ports that contain C++ code will fail to build as a result.

The fix is to delete the stray directory if it exists: sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/include/c++

Then clean the ports that failed to build, and try again.

Ticket: #70750

Trace mode not working

Building ports in trace mode (i.e. with the -t option) will fail on Apple Silicon systems running Sequoia. This appears to be due to new security features in Ventura+. This issue is being followed in Ticket: #66358

Rosetta 2

A number of MacPorts portfiles and MacPorts base assume that arm64 Macs will have Rosetta 2 installed; you will likely run into issues if you have not installed it. Note that Rosetta 2 is not installed by default, or when running x86_64 binaries from the command line — you must open an application that has only x86_64 code in it to get the prompt to install Rosetta 2, or run softwareupdate --install-rosetta in a terminal window.

ScreenCaptureKit Requirement with macOS 15 SDK

Anything that dies with an error: 

error: '<SomeCGGraphicsFunction>' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.

Needs to set macosx_deployment_target to 14 or below.

Workaround for most ports: 

if {${os.platform} eq "darwin" && [vercmp ${macosx_deployment_target} >= 15.0]} {
    macosx_deployment_target 14.0
}

Current Tickets: 70758, 70756, 70709, 70774, 71103

Tickets for Broken Ports

#62820
bmon @4.0: error: use of undeclared identifier 'unused'
#68759
agrep @2.04: implicit function declarations
#70468
php74 @7.4.33: Undefined symbols _res_9_dn_expand, _res_9_dn_skipname, _res_9_init, _res_9_search,
#70750
C++ headers are not found after updating to CLTs version 16.0
#70751
collada-dom @2.4.0_1: error: unknown type name 'zipFile'; did you mean 'zip_file'?
#70753
samba3 @3.6.25_4: configure failure on macOS 15.x/Xcode 16.x
#70765
libssh2 @1.11.0 cannot compile against libressl
#70808
openjdk18 @18.0.2.1_0+release+server fails to build on macOS Sequoia 15
#70812
ossp-uuid @1.6.2 +universal: error: call to undeclared function '__VA_COPY_USE_yes'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
#70841
bcv @2.2: error: assigning to 'char *' from 'const char *' discards qualifiers
#70843
rexx port build failure: -Wincompatible-function-pointer-types
#70882
OpenCore Legacy Patcher 2.0.2 installs misversioned CoreImage framework wrapper on macOS 15 on Macs using 3802-based GPUs
#70888
blender: Error: Unable to deduce MP Clang version from /usr/bin/clang
#70956
Togl-2.0 @2.0: error: incompatible function pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(Tk_Window, Tk_ClassProcs *, ClientData)' (aka 'void (*)(struct Tk_Window_ *, struct Tk_ClassProcs *, void *)') from 'void (*const)(Tk_Window, const Tk_ClassProcs *, ClientData)' (aka 'void (*const)(struct Tk_Window_ *, const struct Tk_ClassProcs *, void *)') [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
#70972
flite @2.2_0 fails to link on macOS sequioa
#70976
libpeas1 @1.32.0: failure to build on macOS Sequoia
#71019
gnupg2 @2.4.5_0+openldap+pinentry_mac linking fails on macOS Sequoia arm64
#71023
mpich-clang13 @4.2.2: error: _Float16 is not supported on this target
#71025
php74-odbc, php80-odbc: error: incompatible function pointer types
#71047
emacs-app @29.4_1+imagemagick+nativecomp+rsvg+treesitter: Failed to activate
#71058
gwenhywfar4: error: incompatible function pointer types
#71090
kicad @7.0.11: error: implicit instantiation of undefined template 'std::char_traits<unsigned short>'
#71091
libxmi @1.2: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
#71092
tecla @1.6.3: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'TputsRetType (TputsArgType)' (aka 'void (int)') to parameter of type 'int (*)(int)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
#71094
tectonic @0.14.1: error[E0282]: type annotations needed for `Box<_>`
#71119
ruby33: error: something wrong with LDFLAGS
#71133
scheme48 @1.9.2: error: Unable to determine bits per byte, see config.log for details
#71134
swi-prolog @9.2.7: tex:main source_sink `tex(main)' does not exist
#71135
ucblogo @6.2.4: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'void (void)' to parameter of type 'void (*)(int)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
#71150
py311-wxpython-4.0: error: 'CGDisplayCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit
#71160
openjdk-17 @17.0.13_0+release+server: Build failure - command failed
#71169
tree-sitter-yaml @0.5.0_0 build fails on Sequoia arm64
#71269
valgrind-macos-devel @3.22.0-r2023-10-29: configure: error: Valgrind works on Darwin 10.x-23.x (Mac OS X 10.6-10.11 and macOS 10.12-14.0)
#71365
mumps @5.7.3_0+gfortran+mpich+openblas rev-upgrade fails due to self-conflict
#71383
gle-graphics @4.2.5_4 build failure
#71386
py-py2app: Wrong path to Carbon framework
#71423
qt5-qtbase @5.15.15_0: ASSERT failure in QMacVersion: "Could not find any version load command"
#71481
portaudio @20240308-88ab584e +universal Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64
#71492
traceroute @1.4a12: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
#71512
Platypus 5.4.1 fails to build on 15.1.1
#71517
kermit @9.0.302: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
#71580
MacVim @9.1.release180 build error
#71596
py312-pytorch @2.3.0_0+mps build fails on MacOS Sequoia 15.2 on M3 MacBook Pro
#71668
libffi @3.4.6: Build failure on arm64, configure detects x86_64
#71702
mariadb-10.11 install fails on Sequoia 15.2
#71718
php71 @7.1.33_5+libedit: error: too few arguments to function call, expected 3, have 2
#71783
xcircuit @3.10.30_3: error: call to undeclared function 'XDefineCursor'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
#71802
mmencode: implicit int errors
#71817
edencommon: Undefined boost::filesystem symbols
#71894
xar: @1.8.0.501: error: implicit declaration of function 'xar_prop_get_expect_notnull' is invalid in C99
#71898
gnuplot 6 +wxwidgets: in Sequoia, set term wxt does not work
#71905
gimp3-devel +quartz: error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.
#71969
db47 @4.7.25: patch fails on Ventura and later
#72071
bash50 @5.0.18: error: expected identifier or '('
#72124
emacs @30.1: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct dynarray_header'
#72184
herbstluftwm @0.6.2 fails to build on osx sequoia
#72321
dconf @0.26.1: incompatible function pointer types
#72356
lha @20211125_0: header.c:71:13: error: parameter 'len' was not declared, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
#72427
libgcc14: error: '_Alignof' was not declared in this scope
#72500
ccl @1.12.2 does not build with clang 17 under Sequoia on arm64 with Xcode 16.3
#72583
emacs-app @30.1_1+nativecomp+rsvg+treesitter launches multiple bash processes that do not terminate
#72693
gdb @15.1+multiarch: fails to build on macOS 15.5 with XCode 16.4
#72786
pingus: Unable to fetch (git password requested)
#72822
daemontools @0.76: error: call to undeclared function 'lockf'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
#72848
mips-elf-gcc: build failure
#72889
aom @3.12.1_0: arm64 Sequoia 15.6.1: C++ versions less than C++14 are not supported
#72894
py-ansible: ansible-vault requires the cryptography library in order to function
#72897
gtk-sharp2: int conversion errors
#72973
game-porting-toolkit: Building game-porting-toolkit requires the MacOSX13.sdk to be present
#72978
swi-prolog @9.2.9: error: called object type 'int' is not a function or function pointer
#73187
falcon @0.9.6.8: error: non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from type 'GType' (aka 'unsigned long') to 'Falcon::int64' (aka 'long long') in initializer list [-Wc++11-narrowing]
#73283
bash @5.3.3 segmentation faults

#70862
batik port: MacOS Sequoia; install via source build fails
#71052
llvm-19 @19.1.1: possibly rpath-related problems on macOS Sequoia
#71130
segfault building gd2 on Mac OS Sequoia
#71416
volk 2.5.0: Broken on Sequoia / clang 16.0.0
#71434
ftgl @2.4.0_1 does not build on macOS 15.1 Sequoia
#71722
libt3config @1.0.0+universal: sequoia 15.2: reporting error in configure: libtool not working for C.
#72118
tree-sitter-cmake install fails on Sequoia 15.3.1
#72119
gstreamer1-gst-plugins-bad @1.24.9_2+faac fails to build on Sequoia arm64
#72123
dbusmenu-qt build failure on MacOS Sequoia
#72137
xplot fails to configure on mac sequoia 15.3.1
#72251
glib2 2.78 failed to compile on MacOS X Sequoia
#72411
Cannot build "sword" on macOS Sequoia 15.4
#72563
samba4 @4.22.1+universal: crashes on startup on Sequoia 15.5
#72594
qgis3: GRASS Plugin fails to load in macOS Sequoia 15.5 despite proper installation
#72673
easytag: Unable to install On Sequoia 15.5
#73179
clang-16 @16.0.6_8+analyzer failed build on macOS Sequoia 15.7.1 x86_64
#73297
Bug Report: rev-upgrade incorrectly marks esmf as broken on macOS Sequoia due to @rpath load commands

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