gnutls @3.7.10: Libhogweed (nettle's companion library) 3.6 was not found

[enfascination (Seth Frey)]

Having stripped down to bare new port install on a new Sonoma machine, I'm encountering repeated problems with gnutls becoming broken and failing to repair under port rev-upgrade.

I've attached the two logs referred to in the high level errors messages supplied below:

Error: Failed to configure gnutls: consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/work/gnutls-3.7.10/config.log
Error: Failed to configure gnutls: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gnutls/gnutls/main.log for details.
Error: rev-upgrade failed: Error rebuilding gnutls

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

I'm a bit puzzled: I have gnutls @3.7.10_0 installed on my Sonoma machine.

I just re-ran the configure script to see if anything had changed: I see no errors.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

I get the following on both my Ventura and Sonoma machines:

marius@Mira ~ % port contents nettle|grep lib/lib
  /opt/local/lib/libhogweed.6.8.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libhogweed.6.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libhogweed.a
  /opt/local/lib/libhogweed.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.8.8.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.8.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.a
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.dylib

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

config.log says:

configure:12016: checking for NETTLE
configure:12023: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "nettle >= $NETTLE_MINIMUM"
configure:12026: $? = 0
configure:12040: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "nettle >= $NETTLE_MINIMUM"
configure:12043: $? = 0
configure:12091: result: yes
configure:12097: checking for HOGWEED
configure:12104: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "hogweed >= $NETTLE_MINIMUM "
Package hogweed was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hogweed.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hogweed' found
configure:12107: $? = 1
configure:12121: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "hogweed >= $NETTLE_MINIMUM "
Package hogweed was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hogweed.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hogweed' found
configure:12124: $? = 1
configure:12138: result: no
No package 'hogweed' found
configure:12155: error:
  ***
  *** Libhogweed (nettle's companion library) 3.6 was not found. Note that you must compile nettle with gmp support.

so let's check some basics. What's the output of these commands:

pkg-config --modversion nettle
pkg-config --modversion hogweed
port -qv installed nettle

I see 3.9.1 on my system, where I cannot reproduce the problem.

[enfascination (Seth Frey)]

Thank you @ryandesign. Here is the output of those commands

>pkg-config --modversion nettle
3.9.1
>pkg-config --modversion hogweed
Package hogweed was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hogweed.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hogweed' found
>port -qv installed nettle
  nettle @3.9.1_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 23' archs='x86_64' date='2023-11-28T14:05:48-0800'

And here is the output of a few others:

>find /opt | grep libnettle
/opt/local/lib/libnettle.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libnettle.a
/opt/local/lib/libnettle.8.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libnettle.8.8.dylib
>find /opt | grep libhogweed
>find /opt | grep hogweed
>port contents nettle|grep lib/lib
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.8.8.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.8.dylib
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.a
  /opt/local/lib/libnettle.dylib

At a glance the big difference is that hogweed is nowhere to be found. Could that explain the problem? Are you seeing any suggestions of a cause of or solution to this problem?

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

I suspect your libhogweed files somehow have been deleted.

Try

sudo port deactivate nettle

followed by

sudo port activate nettle

You may need to choose the most current version.This should restore the full nettle package.

[enfascination (Seth Frey)]

Excellent. That did not do the trick, but sudo port upgrade -n --force nettle did. hogweed is back and gnutls is repaired.

Unfortunately I have no idea how that library could have been deleted. Thank you for the guidance on repairs.