moreutils-0.39 Compile error on 10.4, missing symbol "_waitid"

[craig.cottingham@…]

OS Platform: darwin

OS Version: 8.11.0

Mac OS X Version: 10.4

System Arch: powerpc

Xcode Version: 2.5

...
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -O2 -g -Wall    parallel.c   -o parallel
parallel.c:166:2: warning: #warning Cannot autodetect number of CPUS on this system: _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN not defined.
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: Undefined symbols:
_waitid
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [parallel] Error 1

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to fill in the Port field and cc the maintainer.

[milosh@…]

It works on leopard powerpc. Please try an older version (that did not contain parallel), r57375 for example. howto/InstallingOlderPort

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Added an early error to the port in r78310. Apple apparently left waitid out of libc on 10.4 by mistake (it's declared in the headers). You could ask upstream to add a workaround for this.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 439de2da5754c78f9764190f8d63ff56750622f0/macports-ports:

moreutils: Re-enable building on Leopard and Tiger

Building on Tiger was disabled because parallel failed to build.
Now that we no longer include parallel in moreutils, this is no
longer a problem.

See: #24279

No reason was given why building on Leopard was disabled in
1f118454893940ec44023e64246b3f9af5ade936. It builds fine for me
when the Snow Leopard patch is added.

See: #53359