m4 Won't install on fresh MacPorts Installation on Mac OSX Leopard PPC

[smnbldwn]

I installed MacPorts on my PowerBook G4 so that I can use a newer version on Python and also to use the MacPorts version of Ten Four Fox.

The initial install process and port selfupdate worked fine but I haven't managed to install many packages.

M4 won't install, and this is a dependency for many other pacakages.

This is the message I find in the log when it doesn't install:

version:1 :debug:main Starting logging for m4 @1.4.19_1 :debug:sysinfo Mac OS X 10.5.8 (darwin/9.8.0) arch powerpc :debug:sysinfo MacPorts 2.9.1 :debug:sysinfo Xcode 3.1.4, CLT 1.0.0.9000000000.1.1192168948 :debug:sysinfo SDK 10.5 :debug:sysinfo MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.5 :debug:main dropping privileges: euid changed to 502, egid changed to 500. :debug:main Checksum recorded in statefile '574d9319865f1ae6d61ac34da1b7fc553911d8d6981d0ac62a773059d218c85a' differs from $ :notice:main Portfile for m4 changed since last build; discarding previous state. :debug:main euid/egid changed to: 0/0 :error:main See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_p$

[smnbldwn]

I tried cleaning m4 and got this:

sudo port -f clean --all m4 ---> Cleaning m4 Error: error deleting "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_m4/m4/work/m4-1.4.19/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---": file name too long

[smnbldwn]

Is there a workaround for this?

[smnbldwn]

I tried deleting manually and re-installing but got the same result...

sudo rm -rf _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_m4 Password: $ sudo port install m4---> Computing dependencies for m4 ---> Fetching archive for m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19_1.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from ​http://packages.macports.org/m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19_1.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from ​http://fra.de.packages.macports.org/m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19_1.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 from ​http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/m4 ---> Fetching distfiles for m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19.tar.bz2 from ​https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19.tar.bz2 from ​https://artfiles.org/gnu.org/m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19.tar.bz2 from ​ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/gnu/m4 ---> Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.19.tar.bz2 from ​ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/prep/m4 ---> Verifying checksums for m4 ---> Extracting m4 ---> Applying patches to m4 ---> Configuring m4 Error: Failed to configure m4: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_m4/m4/work/m4-1.4.19/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---: file name too long Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_m4/m4/main.log for details. Error: Follow ​https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug. Error: Processing of port m4 failed

[kencu (Ken)]

you’ve run into this issue:

#62994

please look there for analysis and workarounds we have found