coreutils: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64

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Compiling coreutils on Mac OS X (Lion) fails with the infamous "Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64" error, see #32123, #33407. Unfortunately forcing a different compiler (as suggested in the tickets and in the documentation did not help here.

$ port clean coreutils
$ port install apple-gcc42
$ port install coreutils configure.compiler=apple-gcc-4.2 configure.cxx=g++-apple-4.2

From the main.log:

[...]
:info:build   CC     su.o
:info:build   AR     libver.a
:info:build   CCLD   chroot
:info:build ld: warning: ignoring file libver.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
:info:build ld: warning: ignoring file ../lib/libcoreutils.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
:info:build Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
:info:build   "_xstrdup", referenced from:
:info:build       _set_additional_groups in chroot.o

Setting configure.compiler to "llvm-gcc-4.2" or "gcc-4.2" did not help, although one could see in the buildlog that the setting was honored and llvm-gcc-4.2 resp. gcc-4.2 (resp. apple-gcc42) was used.

$ sw_vers 
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.7.3
BuildVersion:   11D50

$ port version
Version: 2.0.4

$ xcodebuild -version
Xcode 4.1
Build version 4B110

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port install coreutils configure.compiler=apple-gcc-4.2 configure.cxx=g++-apple-4.2

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port install coreutils configure.compiler=clang

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port install coreutils

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I noticed that I did have Xcode 4.3 installed, but xcodebuild would still print "4.1". Switched to 4.3 now, but the error remains the same :-\

$ xcodebuild -version
Xcode 4.3
Build version 4E109

$ xcode-select -print-path
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to macports@…:

I noticed that I did have Xcode 4.3 installed, but xcodebuild would still print "4.1". Switched to 4.3 now,

How?

but the error remains the same :-\

Did you already "sudo port clean coreutils" and try again?

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How?

Xcode 4.1 was installed as a .dmg (and was installed in /Developer), 4.3 installs via AppStore in /Applications, so I had to do:

$ xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
$ xcodebuild -version
Xcode 4.3
Build version 4E109

When compiling w/o any configure.compiler= flags set, llvm-gcc-4.2 is used and from the main.log (attached) one can see that this points to "/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2" which is the version from the commandline-tools that was installed from within Xcode 4.3.

Did you already "sudo port clean coreutils" and try again?

Yes, after every failed attempt of "port install ..." I did the "port clean coreutils", even "port clean --all all" once.

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Same as #33540: reinstalling MacPorts helped, coreutils now installs just fine. Again, sorry for the noise.