glib2 compilation fails when /usr/local/include is unreadable

[pkubaj@…]

I have installed glib2 before, this is only an upgrade. The message is:

checking for gcc... /Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_glib2/glib2/work/glib-2.30.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

As you can see, Xcode is installed (version 4.2), and /Developers/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 exists.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please use WikiFormatting.

Are you able to install anything?

[pkubaj@…]

Replying to macsforever2000@…:

In the future, please use WikiFormatting.

Are you able to install anything?

Nope, it wants to upgrade glib2 first.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please remember to Cc the maintainer of the affected port.

Please attach the config.log. It's in the directory identified by the command:

port work glib2

[pkubaj@…]

Cc Me!

[pkubaj@…]

Cc Me!

[pkubaj@…]

Attached. And please, delete these CCs, it was by accident...

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

That is the main.log. Could you attach the config.log please?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In the config.log I see:

cc1: error: /usr/local/include: Permission denied

So the problem seems to be that the directory /usr/local/include exists, and you do not have permission to look into it. We don't support having things installed in /usr/local while using MacPorts because it can cause conflicts and failed builds, so I recommend you remove /usr/local, clean glib2, and try again.

[pkubaj@…]

Thanks, I saw it earlier, but didn't want to do anything about it, since it's related to Chameleon (I use Hackintosh).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Well the fatal error is coming from the fact that the directory is unreadable (by the macports user), so you could get past that error by making that directory readable to that user. But like I said files in /usr/local often interfere. What files are there?

[pkubaj@…]

fdisk440 (I don't know how it got there, I didn't install it for sure) and bdmesg (which is related to Chameleon, at first I thought it was configuration file, but now it seems to be only a log, like dmesg, so probably no harm done here).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Let us know what happens when you either move /usr/local out of the way, or change the permissions of /usr/local/include so that the macports user can read it, and then try building glib2 again.

[pkubaj@…]

I've already removed it.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

And glib2 builds now?

[pkubaj@…]

Yes.