appstream-glib @0.7.12: Include dir /usr/include/uuid does not exist

[chicagotripp (Altoine Barker)]

I am running Mojave OS 10.14 Beta (18A371a). Using port version 2.5.99. I am trying to install gimp2-devel +quartz and I receive the following error building appstream-glib @0.7.12:

Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64

meson.build:52:0: ERROR:  Include dir /usr/include/uuid does not exist.

A full log can be found at /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_appstream-glib/appstream-glib/work/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_appstream-glib/appstream-glib/work/appstream-glib-0_7_12" && /opt/local/bin/meson --prefix=/opt/local -Drpm=false /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_appstream-glib/appstream-glib/work/appstream-glib-0_7_12 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_appstream-glib/appstream-glib/work/build 
Exit code: 1
Error: Failed to configure appstream-glib: configure failure: command execution failed
DEBUG: Error code: NONE
DEBUG: Backtrace: configure failure: command execution failed
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_appstream-glib/appstream-glib/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port gimp2-devel failed

I am including the main.log.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to chicagotripp:

A full log can be found at /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_appstream-glib/appstream-glib/work/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

Please attach this file too.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I wonder if the problem is specific to this port, or whether it also affects other ports that build with meson. Can you try some others? Use port echo depends:meson to see a list of such ports.

[chicagotripp (Altoine Barker)]

Detailed Log

[chicagotripp (Altoine Barker)]

I have no /usr/include directory. This is what I have when I view the directory (ls /usr ):

 $ls /usr/
X11		lib		local		share
bin		libexec		sbin		standalone

If I run which uuid, I get:

$which uuid
/opt/local/bin/uuid

I have followed your suggestion and installed two ports (gcab and urbit) that depend on Meson with no problems.

[chicagotripp (Altoine Barker)]

I have looked over the error message and it seems to be that the patch use-system-uuid.patch implicitly points uuid to use directory /usr/include/uuid.

Is this directory present on OS versions earlier than MojaveOS? Otherwise, should there be a script to use /opt/local/bin/uuid which my port says is provided by ossp-uuid?

Google search shows that this hasn't been in the MacOSX since El Capitan or Yosemite without XCode6.1. I found the file under the Xcode Developer tools directory located at /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/.

Notice that the latest MacOS 10.14 SDK has the Xcode-beta.app when in the past it was Xcodebeta.app .

Should the patch then check for or point to the MacOS SDK path when /usr/include/ is not present?

I see if you look at line 52 in the file meson.build shows:

uuid_inc = include_directories('/usr/include/uuid')

When I inserted /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/uuid in place of /usr/include/uuid this completes and fully installs. Recap: I changed line 52 to now show:

uuid_inc = include_directories('/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/includ/uuid')

[captainproton1971 (Captain Proton)]

Having the same issue, however line 52 of the file meson.build shows me something different:

uuid = dependency('uuid')

so I'm not sure where to make the suggested edit. This is preventing gimp from building for me.

[MaddTheSane (C.W. Betts)]

Apple seems to have moved the include directory to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The change in Mojave is that the command line tools no longer also install a copy of the headers at /usr/include. We would like ports to adapt to this change, because although there is a method to get /usr/include on Mojave, we don't want users to have to do that, since it's clearly Apple's intention to deprecate this directory.

The appstream-glib port has forced the use of /usr/include/uuid since [5fda12f80c85e7d09ffdaaa494491c22ccbdec2d/macports-ports] but no explanation for this change was given. I tried removing that and building it with ossp-uuid instead, but the build failed. Maybe that's why it wasn't used before.

I've ​asked the developers of appstream-glib to support ossp-uuid.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Alternately we could make appstream-glib use the libuuid port. That builds, however libuuid and ossp-uuid currently conflict, and nothing in MacPorts currently uses libuuid; everything that needs uuid support uses ossp-uuid. So if we want appstream-glib to use libuuid, we either have to make the two ports not conflict, or we have to switch all ports that use ossp-uuid to use libuuid (and it's not clear that all such ports would be compatible with that).

From what I've read, ossp-uuid is more common on BSD systems (macOS is derived from BSD), while libuuid is included with Linux so it is more popular there. However, /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h seems to be an earlier version of the uuid.h that's part of the libuuid port, while ossp-uuid's uuid.h seems unrelated. Maybe that speaks for switching MacPorts uuid use from ossp-uuid to libuuid.

ossp-uuid is also older, having had its most recent release in 2008, while libuuid's most recent release was in 2014, in case that informs our decision.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign:

I've ​asked the developers of appstream-glib to support ossp-uuid.

The developers have declined to do this.

Replying to ryandesign:

Alternately we could make appstream-glib use the libuuid port. That builds, however libuuid and ossp-uuid currently conflict, and nothing in MacPorts currently uses libuuid; everything that needs uuid support uses ossp-uuid. So if we want appstream-glib to use libuuid, we either have to make the two ports not conflict, or we have to switch all ports that use ossp-uuid to use libuuid (and it's not clear that all such ports would be compatible with that).

I'll see what we can do about this.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

In 22eeffc0841fa0b85cffc13df0a5c9c4d776da6f/macports-ports (master):

appstream-glib: Mojave/Xcode 10 build fix

Build against system uuid headers contained in the current selected
Xcode SDK rather than /usr/include. Command Line Tools no longer
installs /usr/include by default on macOS 10.14. Should be compatible
with earlier versions.

See ​https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_10_release_notes.

Closes #57028.