make hangs during configure of gettext

[nneonneo (Robert Xiao)]

While trying to upgrade gettext +universal, I ran into a hang.

Command-line: sudo port -v -d install gettext +universal Log attached. I modified the ./configure script (/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_sea.us.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gettext/gettext/work/gettext-0.19.6-x86_64/configure) to change the #! line to "#!/bin/sh -x" so it prints out everything it does. (The hang happens in the same place without -x).

According to args.d, the command "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -sdk -find make" is hanging. Indeed, if I query Activity Monitor, "xcodebuild" is just sitting there not doing anything (no CPU usage, minimal RAM usage). If I kill it, the configure proceeds.

This is with Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) version 7.0 released two days ago, and the latest MacPorts version and port files (as of today).

[nneonneo (Robert Xiao)]

Log of installing gettext with "sh -x" in ./configure

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Sounds like a bug in xcodebuild. Nothing we can do about that in MacPorts.

I don't see this problem myself. Does it always happen? With every port or only with gettext?

[nneonneo (Robert Xiao)]

It looks like it might have been the new install of Command Line Tools. Apparently, I did not start Xcode to approve the EULA, so the new tools weren't installed. I guess there's some weird corner case where certain invocations of make in this period fail to launch correctly (maybe waiting for an EULA acceptance that never appears?), even though make was working fine in the majority of cases.

Case closed, I guess.