cctools ranlib is not compatible with Xcode 11

[hjlbs]

ports attempts to pull: xz-5.2.4_0+universal.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2

from : ​http://aus.us.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/xz/

which doesn't exist.

I did remove the i386 from the universal line because I was getting:

Error: xz cannot be installed for the configured universal_archs 'x86_64 i386' because the arch(s) 'i386' are not supported.
Error: rev-upgrade failed: Error rebuilding xz

The file: xz-5.2.4_0.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2

exists but I don't know how to tell ports to pull that one instead.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Failing to fetch an archive shouldn't prevent a port from being installed, because MacPorts will simply build it from source in that case. However, there is no universal archive of xz because nothing can be built universal on Mojave. You'll have to install without the universal variant.

If that still fails, please attach the log.

[hjlbs]

Turns out I was looking at the wrong spot in the error. It was able to pull the file but the build process is failing seemingly due to permissions.

--->  Fetching distfiles for db48
--->  Verifying checksums for db48
--->  Extracting db48
--->  Applying patches to db48
--->  Configuring db48
--->  Building db48
Error: Failed to build db48: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_databases_db48/db48/main.log for details.
Error: Problem while installing db48
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade cmake failed

:info:build Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_databases_db48/db48/work/db-4.8.30-x86_64/build_unix" && /usr/bin/make -j4 -w all
:info:build Exit code: 2
:error:build Failed to build db48: command execution failed
:debug:build Error code: NONE
:debug:build Backtrace: command execution failed
:debug:build     while executing
:debug:build "$procedure $targetname"
:error:build See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_databases_db48/db48/main.log for details.

If I run the cd <dir> && make command manually with sudo then I can install it. Unfortunately, ports still doesn't see it as installed though.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please attach the complete main.log file so that we can see what went wrong.

[hjlbs]

log when trying to install

[kencu (Ken)]

This is something we have fixed before, but has come back around to haunt us again.

info:build /opt/local/bin/ranlib: object: .libs/libmpn.a(fib_table.o) malformed object (unknown load command 1)

please do this:

sudo port -f uninstall cctools
sudo port -v install cctools +xcode

and then try your build again.

[hjlbs]

You are awesome. That seems to have fixed it. I had found a manual work around where I would fetch the port, then manually build it and frequently had to run export RANLIB=/usr/bin/ranlib

Thanks again

[kencu (Ken)]

#58749 tracks a request for cctools to be updated