Cannot Install ghostscript @9.21+x11 on Mac OSX Sierra 10.12.4

[fmw42 (Fred Weinhaus)]

Ghostscript will not install on my new Mac mini OSX 10.12.4 Sierra. I have tried several time with no success. I even uninstalled MacPorts and reinstalled it. All other ports install fine, except Ghostscript.

I ran

sudo  port -d -y rev-upgrade

and am attaching my full session log.

The sudo port -d -y rev-upgrade results are below:

--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
DEBUG: Ignoring loadcommand containing @executable_path in /opt/local/libexec/ld64/ld-latest
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/main-fat since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/main-fat3 since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc64 in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/main-universal since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/main-universal since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/secondary-fat since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/secondary-fat3 since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc64 in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/secondary-universal since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/secondary-universal since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/bundletemplate/prebuilt/main-fat since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/bundletemplate/prebuilt/main-fat3 since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc64 in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/bundletemplate/prebuilt/main-universal since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/py2app/bundletemplate/prebuilt/main-universal since this system can't run it anyway
DEBUG: skipping ppc in /opt/local/share/cmake-3.8/Modules/CPack.OSXScriptLauncher.in since this system can't run it anyway
Could not open libgs.9.21.dylib: Error opening or reading file (referenced from /opt/local/bin/gsc)
libgs.9.21.dylib seems to be referenced using a relative path. This may be a problem with its canonical library name and require the use of install_name_tool(1) to fix.
DEBUG: Marking /opt/local/bin/gsc as broken
DEBUG: Marking /opt/local/bin/gsx as broken
--->  Found 2 broken files, matching files to ports
--->  Found 1 broken port, determining rebuild order
DEBUG: Broken: ghostscript
DEBUG: Processing port ghostscript @0:9.21_0 +x11 

[fmw42 (Fred Weinhaus)]

session log with error messages

[fmw42 (Fred Weinhaus)]

Error Message

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please use WikiFormatting. As reporter, you do not need to Cc yourself.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

This is #53805. The fix will arrive on the port tree mirrors soon.

[fmw42 (Fred Weinhaus)]

Replying to neverpanic:

This is #54019. The fix will arrive on the port tree mirrors soon.

Thanks for the quick reply. But does "soon" mean hours or days?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hours.

[fmw42 (Fred Weinhaus)]

I apologize if I am being too impatient. But can you tell me the current status, please? I tried again this morning and get the same messages. I also noticed that the MacPorts web site only shows Ghostscript 9.19. But when doing either

sudo port install Ghostscript

or

sudo port install ghostscript @9.21_1+x11

It still tries to install ghostscript @9.21_0+x11

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

The website update system may be broken at the moment, I'm not sure of the current status.

You cannot specifically select which version to install – MacPorts will always install the latest version it knows about. As long as port info ghostscript does not show 9.21_1 (but 9.21_0), installation will fail. The fix was committed yesterday, but our rsync infrastructure that updates the set of publicly available ports has been a little slower lately, so please allow up to 24h for the change to show up.

If you want this to happen faster, you can use wiki:howto/SyncingWithGit at the expense of more CPU usage because you will have to generate a portindex locally.

[fmw42 (Fred Weinhaus)]

I was able to resolve it this morning with some help on one of the other related posts. I needed to do sudo port selfudate and then I could see and install 9.21_1. Thanks very much for the fast replies and fixes. You guys are great!