neovim fails to compile on Big Sur with Apple Silicon

[Gregory-Gelfond (Gregory Gelfond)]

Running sudo port install neovim fails on Big Sur with Apple Silicon:

--->  Fetching distfiles for neovim
--->  Attempting to fetch neovim-0.4.4.tar.gz from https://distfiles.macports.org/neovim
--->  Verifying checksums for neovim                                            
--->  Extracting neovim
--->  Configuring neovim
--->  Building neovim
Error: Failed to build neovim: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_editors_neovim/neovim/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port neovim failed

I've attached the main.log for reference.

[dive (Artem Loenko)]

FYI: it seems that nvim executable is there but it fails with SIGKILL when you try to run it. Check the ​#13399 issue in the NeoVim bug-tracker.

~/P/g/neovim $ file ./build/bin/nvim
./build/bin/nvim: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

~/P/g/neovim $ ./build/bin/nvim
fish: “./build/bin/nvim” terminated by signal SIGKILL (Forced quit)

[dive (Artem Loenko)]

There is a ​#PR 12624 with Apple Silicon support. The build should be fine when it is merged.

[minusf]

unfortunately neovim can be slow with their releases. both 12624 and 13399 has been merged already in master months ago.

is it possible to have a local patch (like in openbsd ports) and get this going? it's kind of difficult to be without an editor :)

[funasoul (Akira Funahashi)]

Hi,

I've sent a PR on this issue.

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/10067

See what happens.

Replying to minusf:

unfortunately neovim can be slow with their releases. both 12624 and 13399 has been merged already in master months ago.

is it possible to have a local patch (like in openbsd ports) and get this going? it's kind of difficult to be without an editor :)

[funasoul (Akira Funahashi)]

In 99b210839e901b203bc1b5e989fbe6b131c0b71e/macports-ports (master):

neovim: fix crash on Big Sur with Apple Silicon

The patch was taken from ​https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/neovim.rb

Closes: #61550