ds9 fails to install on Mavericks due to llvm

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Tried to install ds9 on OS X 10.9 but it fails with these lines:

--->  Fetching archive for llvm-3.1
--->  Attempting to fetch llvm-3.1-3.1_7.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/llvm-3.1
--->  Attempting to fetch llvm-3.1-3.1_7.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/llvm-3.1
--->  Attempting to fetch llvm-3.1-3.1_7.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/llvm-3.1
--->  Fetching distfiles for llvm-3.1
Error: llvm-3.1 is not supported on Mavericks or later.
Error: org.macports.fetch for port llvm-3.1 returned: unsupported platform
Please see the log file for port llvm-3.1 for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_llvm-3.1/llvm-3.1/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade llvm-gcc42 failed

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please use WikiFormatting, fill in the Port field with the port that failed and Cc the port maintainers (port info --maintainers llvm-3.1).

llvm-3.1 is not supported per the error:

Error: llvm-3.1 is not supported on Mavericks or later.

You do not need it however. The ports that require it, ld64 and cctools, use llvm-3.3 by default now and so should you.

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Cc Me!

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Sorry, I will do better report next time although I don't see where to add a CC.

But the point is I really do think it was ds9 that failed. What I did was "sudo ports install ds9" and it failed, evidently because it lists llvm-3.1 as a dependency. I understand that llvm-3.3 is current so it seems to me the problem here is that ds9 is asking for the wrong dependency, no fault of llvm.

I don't know what you mean "and so should you", I am not a maintainer for ds9.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

ds9 does not list any llvm as a dependency:

$ port deps ds9
Full Name: ds9 @7.2_3
Build Dependencies:   llvm-gcc42
Library Dependencies: xorg-libX11, xorg-libXext, xorg-libXt, Xft2, xrender,
                      xorg-libXScrnSaver, fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libiconv,
                      jbigkit, zlib, libzip, zip, ast

It does list llvm-gcc42 as a dependency, and that does list cctools as a dependency, and that does list ld64 as a dependency, and cctools and ld64 do have various llvm variants, and you have presumably installed cctools and ld64 back when llvm31 was the default variant, but these days llvm33 is the default variant, and you should reinstall those ports with those new default variants to resolve the problem; I think this command should do it:

sudo port install ld64 cctools

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Yes, that did it, thank you.

But, if I may say, I thought sorting through such dependencies is exactly what port is supposed to do automatically.

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

you have presumably installed cctools and ld64 back when llvm31 was the default variant

And that was well before Mavericks was released, which indicates that the upgrade to Mavericks was not done correctly. You need to uninstall reinstall all your ports.