mysql5 @5.1.59: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

[jamesbranton@…]

Hi,

• Snow Leopard 10.6.8
• MacPorts 2.0.3
• XCode 3.2.6

Trying to install mysql5-server

sudo port install mysql5-server
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for mysql5-server
--->  Dependencies to be installed: mysql5
--->  Fetching archive for mysql5
--->  Attempting to fetch mysql5-5.1.59_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/mysql5
--->  Fetching mysql5
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for mysql5
--->  Extracting mysql5
--->  Applying patches to mysql5
--->  Configuring mysql5
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install mysql5
Log for mysql5 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_mysql5/mysql5/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: mysql5
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Log:

...
:info:configure checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
:info:configure checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
:info:configure checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
:info:configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
:info:configure checking whether build environment is sane... yes
:info:configure checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
:info:configure checking for gawk... gawk
:info:configure checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
:info:configure checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
:info:configure checking for style of include used by make... GNU
:info:configure checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
:info:configure checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
:info:configure checking whether the C compiler works... yes
:info:configure checking whether we are cross compiling... no
:info:configure checking for suffix of executables... 
:info:configure checking for suffix of object files... o
:info:configure checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
:info:configure checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 accepts -g... yes
:info:configure checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 option to accept ISO C89... unsupported
:info:configure checking dependency style of /usr/bin/gcc-4.2... gcc3
:info:configure checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /opt/local/bin/gsed
:info:configure checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
:info:configure checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
:info:configure checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
:info:configure checking for ld used by /usr/bin/gcc-4.2... /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld
:info:configure checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld) is GNU ld... no
:info:configure checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm
:info:configure checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm) interface... BSD nm
:info:configure checking whether ln -s works... yes
:info:configure checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 196608
:info:configure checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
:info:configure checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
:info:configure checking for /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld option to reload object files... -r
:info:configure checking for objdump... no
:info:configure checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
:info:configure checking for ar... ar
:info:configure checking for strip... strip
:info:configure checking for ranlib... ranlib
:info:configure checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm output from /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 object... ok
:info:configure checking for dsymutil... dsymutil
:info:configure checking for nmedit... nmedit
:info:configure checking for lipo... lipo
:info:configure checking for otool... otool
:info:configure checking for otool64... no
:info:configure checking for -single_module linker flag... yes
:info:configure checking for -exported_symbols_list linker flag... yes
:info:configure checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
:info:configure configure: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_mysql5/mysql5/work/mysql-5.1.59':
:info:configure configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
:info:configure See `config.log' for more details.
:info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_mysql5/mysql5/work/mysql-5.1.59" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --localstatedir=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5 --libdir=/opt/local/lib/mysql5 --bindir=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin --includedir=/opt/local/include/mysql5 --datadir=/opt/local/share/mysql5 --sysconfdir=/opt/local/etc/mysql5 --with-zlib-dir=/opt/local --with-ssl=/opt/local --with-extra-charsets=complex --with-unix-socket-path=/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock --with-mysqld-user=_mysql --without-docs --with-plugins=all --enable-thread-safe-client --without-readline --with-embedded-server --with-pic " returned error 1
:error:configure Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:configure Warning: the following items did not execute (for mysql5): org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
:error:configure Failed to install mysql5
:debug:configure couldn't open "/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/tclIndex": no such file or directory
    while executing
"open [file join $dir tclIndex]"
:notice:configure Log for mysql5 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_mysql5/mysql5/main.log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Could you attach the config.log please?

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

This is sounding similar to #64950, which might be more relevant (is mysql5.1 still a thing? looks like only 5.7 and 8.0 are supported upstream) than this ancient ticket.