configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation

[cquiter@…]

Craigs-MacBook-Pro:MacPorts-2.0.4 cquiter$ ./configure
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configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation

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config.log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please remember to use WikiFormatting.

"Could not find a working Foundation implementation" has been reported to us a couple times before (#28452, #30298) but we were never able to find out why it happened.

Do you have anything in /usr/local? If so, that might be interfering; try moving it aside.

Do you have /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework? Do you have /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/Foundation.h? If not, reinstall OS X.

Compiling MacPorts manually should of course work, but out of curiosity, why do you want to do so instead of using our pre-made disk images?

Since we are about to release MacPorts 2.1.0, you could also test whether version 2.1.0 beta 1 works better, but I don't recall us making any changes with regard to this configure check so I doubt it.

[cquiter@…]

Thanks, I looked at (#28452, #30298) but noticed they had other errors in their config.log that I don't have. I tried moving /usr/local then building as well as installing with the disk image, but no luck.

Installing with the disk image causes a bash process to run at 33% CPU for at least an hour until I reboot the system.

I should note that MacPorts installed correctly and started acting up only after I tried to install python bindings for opencv. I tried to reinstall. Then I tried to uninstall/reinstall. However, I get the same result. I also tried removing MacPorts from the .profile.

I tried installing the 2.1.0 .pkg and the package says it installs (no CPU problems) but when I use port I get errors about /opt/local/etc/macports files. After copying defaults I get:

Craigs-MacBook-Pro:~ cquiter$ port
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
port registry doesn't exist at "/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db" and couldn't write to this location
    while executing
"registry::open $db_path"
    (procedure "mportinit" line 633)
    invoked from within
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, port registry doesn't exist at "/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db" and couldn't write to this location

I get the same error about the Foundation implementation when building 2.1.0-beta1.

Also, I have Foundation.framework but not Foundation.h. Reinstall OS X, really?!

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Please remember to use WikiFormatting.

"Could not find a working Foundation implementation" has been reported to us a couple times before (#28452, #30298) but we were never able to find out why it happened.

Do you have anything in /usr/local? If so, that might be interfering; try moving it aside.

Do you have /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework? Do you have /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/Foundation.h? If not, reinstall OS X.

Compiling MacPorts manually should of course work, but out of curiosity, why do you want to do so instead of using our pre-made disk images?

Since we are about to release MacPorts 2.1.0, you could also test whether version 2.1.0 beta 1 works better, but I don't recall us making any changes with regard to this configure check so I doubt it.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It is normal for the installer to run a shell process at the end, to download and index the portfiles (we call this "sync"); if something went wrong with sync, it's possible this could account for the excessive CPU use and stalled install. Nevertheless, MacPorts should at that point be installed, albeit the portfiles might not be downloaded or indexed. If you show the installer log window, it might give you hints about what's going wrong.

Alternately, run "sudo port -v sync" on the command line.

Foundation.framework is a necessary part of OS X; if it's missing parts, then you should fix this, either by restoring a correct copy from your backups or by reinstalling OS X.

[cquiter@…]

So, I basically got things working again. It's hard to say what the root cause was, but here's a basic rundown of what I did.

Reinstall OSX to get rid of bash hang - still no Framework.h

Install command line tools from ​https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action since installing through Xcode caused invalid checksum.

I had installed the OSX gcc installer as well, which may have been causing problems.

uninstall all: sudo port -fp uninstall --follow-dependents installed
clean all: sudo port clean all

I would recommend new users not install the osx gcc standalone product. Just go with Xcode and the command line tools. Initially, I hadn't used the command line tools and things seemed to work okay until I tried to install opencv.

run xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

What is "the osx gcc standalone product"?

[cquiter@…]

Just this: ​https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

So there's nothing wrong with MacPorts here; Foundation.h really was missing and the Xcode location was set to / which makes xcodebuild hang.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[infostud (Geoff Fellows)]

If you get the above errors when compiling Macports for Yosemite try this
If not using XCode download Command-line tools from ​https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/ then

xcode-select -r

to reset the path to the command-line tools path to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools