v8 upgrade failure on Yosemite 10.10

[carlofdtam (Carlo Tambuatco)]

Recent upgrade of all ports revealed the failure of v8 version @3.23.17.23 port to upgrade on OS X 10.10

Don't know where to begin here, so I will just attach the log file.

[carlofdtam (Carlo Tambuatco)]

v8 upgrade log file

[lightoml@…]

It looks Yosemite display problem only on Mac screen. There is no problem with external monitors.

[carlofdtam (Carlo Tambuatco)]

Replying to lightoml@…:

It looks Yosemite display problem only on Mac screen. There is no problem with external monitors.

Attempted another upgrade in macports 2.3.3

Further errors in rebuilding v8:

--->  Building v8
Error: org.macports.build for port v8 returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port v8 for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_v8/v8/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error rebuilding v8
    while executing
"error "Error rebuilding $portname""
    (procedure "revupgrade_scanandrebuild" line 395)
    invoked from within
"revupgrade_scanandrebuild broken_port_counts $opts"
    (procedure "macports::revupgrade" line 5)
    invoked from within
"macports::revupgrade $opts"
    (procedure "action_revupgrade" line 2)
    invoked from within
"action_revupgrade $action $portlist $opts"
    (procedure "action_upgrade" line 25)
    invoked from within
"$action_proc $action $portlist [array get global_options]"
    (procedure "process_cmd" line 103)
    invoked from within
"process_cmd $remaining_args"
    invoked from within
"if { [llength $remaining_args] > 0 } {

    # If there are remaining arguments, process those as a command
    set exit_status [process_cmd $remaining..."
    (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 5268)

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

	GYP_GENERATORS=make \
	build/gyp/gyp --generator-output="out" build/all.gyp \
	              -Ibuild/standalone.gypi --depth=. \
	              -Dv8_target_arch=x64 \
	              -S.x64 -Duse_system_icu=1 -Dwerror= -Dcomponent=shared_library -Dv8_enable_backtrace=1 -Darm_fpu=default -Darm_float_abi=default
  File "build/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 12
    except ImportError, e:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [out/Makefile.x64] Error 1

looks like your python is Python 3.x. ​PEP 394 suggests you shouldn't be doing that. Please change your python to Python 2.x and try again.

[chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez)]

In 3ef45bcf4bfb54b9c1e9c74eb3b54c111e0095c5/macports-ports (master):

v8: delete neglected port

Port has been unable to fetch.
Closes: #52532
See: #53467

Upstream project continues to publish new releases frequently.
Version in MacPorts (from 2014) has known security issues.

Dependents were rethinkdb (removed in 2018) and mongodb
(no longer uses MacPorts' v8).

Closes: #41677
Closes: #41678
Closes: #41924
Closes: #45908
Closes: #47163