texlive fails to compile on BigSur Apple Silicon

[Gregory-Gelfond (Gregory Gelfond)]

Invoking the command sudo port install texlive +full +letter on an Apple Silicon Mac running Big Sur fails building the dependency texlive-bin:

--->  Attempting to fetch tlpkg-TeXLive-2020.54632.tar.xz from https://distfiles.macports.org/texlive-bin
--->  Verifying checksums for texlive-bin
--->  Extracting texlive-bin
--->  Applying patches to texlive-bin
--->  Configuring texlive-bin
--->  Building texlive-bin
Error: Failed to build texlive-bin: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_tex_texlive-bin/texlive-bin/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port texlive failed

For reference I've attached the main.log file.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Interesting. I'm updating to the Xcode 12.2 release (have the beta still). It looks like there's a bug in <math.h> ... but, better practice by the TeXlive folks would be to use isfinite rather than finite since the former is what the current hip-and-trendy kids use while the latter is for backwards compatibility only / sort of deprecated but not yet removed. Need to check the TeXlive source to see if they have fixed this issue yet.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

FYI if you want to "hack" math.h ... line 742 in the 12.2 beta currently reads:

#if defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__

and IMHO should read:

#if defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__ || defined __arm64__

to include support for ARM64 ... that is, unless Apple is explicitly dropping support for the legacy BSD API with the move to Apple Silicon ... hmmm ....

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

The source code in question was last updated "Mon Feb 3 13:01:31 2014" ... so, that might explain why it still uses an old API. Whatevers. Making a patch for MP.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

PR is here ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9178

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

In 69a03775ca2597d548251911b9a6aed1a47df265/macports-ports (master):

texlive-bin: add patch to fix build on ARM64

Use "infinite" rather than "finite" since Apple seems to have removed support for the latter in favor of the former on ARM64 only. Support remains for Intel 32 and 64 bit for both versions (See math.h line 550). This PR might also allow the port to build on PPC 32/64.

Closes: #61547

[kencu (Ken)]

I never had any trouble installing texlive-* on Tiger or Leopard PPC:

2.108_0+texlive platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2019-01-29T08:26:15-0800'
  lcdf-typetools @2.108_1+texlive (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2020-08-22T01:40:38-0700'
  texlive-basic @50893_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-28T09:09:13-0700'
  texlive-basic @54624_1+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T01:07:07-0700'
  texlive-bin @2019.50896_2+x11 platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2019-11-05T19:56:24-0800'
  texlive-bin @2019.50896_3+x11 platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2020-07-08T09:19:45-0700'
  texlive-bin @2020.54632_2+x11 (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2020-08-22T01:05:59-0700'
  texlive-bin-extra @47446_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2018-06-24T14:50:41-0700'
  texlive-bin-extra @54608_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-11-02T22:19:44-0800'
  texlive-bin-extra @54608_1+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-11-19T01:40:29-0800'
  texlive-common @2019_0 platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-28T08:25:57-0700'
  texlive-common @2020_0 (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T00:08:41-0700'
  texlive-context @50709_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:55:42-0700'
  texlive-context @54364_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T12:18:23-0700'
  texlive-fonts-recommended @49603_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:45:51-0700'
  texlive-fonts-recommended @54512_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T12:08:18-0700'
  texlive-generic-recommended @39710_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2017-03-30T17:39:11-0700'
  texlive-latex @50741_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:31:31-0700'
  texlive-latex @54498_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T01:36:35-0700'
  texlive-latex-extra @50885_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T20:22:46-0700'
  texlive-latex-recommended @50818_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:37:03-0700'
  texlive-latex-recommended @54586_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T11:59:36-0700'
  texlive-math-extra @41196_1+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2017-03-30T17:37:41-0700'
  texlive-math-science @50760_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:50:05-0700'
  texlive-math-science @54588_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T12:12:24-0700'
  texlive-metapost @50602_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:34:09-0700'
  texlive-metapost @54512_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T11:56:56-0700'
  texlive-pictures @50872_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T20:03:26-0700'
  texlive-pictures @54512_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T02:21:38-0700'
  texlive-plain-generic @50884_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:39:47-0700'
  texlive-plain-generic @54476_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T12:01:46-0700'
  texlive-tlpdb @2020.54632_0 (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-11-02T22:16:36-0800'
  texlive-xetex @50852_0+doc platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2019-05-29T19:41:54-0700'
  texlive-xetex @54512_0+doc (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='noarch' date='2020-08-22T12:04:06-0700'

[kencu (Ken)]

and while I'm at it, you'll love this one:

$ port -v installed octave
The following ports are currently installed:
  octave @5.2.0_6+accelerate+app+docs+gfortran+graphicsmagick+qt4+sound+sundials (active) platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2020-11-04T12:36:17-0800'