gdal @3.9.2: fatal error: 'cstddef' file not found

[news24lor]

I did a clean installation of MacPorts in my MacBook Pro M2Pro in MacOS Sonoma and installed GDAL. The standard version of GDAL is installed without any problems, but I need the version where there are also the libraries of nedcdf, hdf4, hdf5 and others that are not present in the normal version. I executed the command:

% sudo port install gdal +hdf4 +hdf5 +netcdf +postgresql16 +proj9.

It started the compilation and the error came up immediately:

:info:build make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/work/build'
:info:build [  6%] Built target libtiff
:info:build make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/work/build'
:info:build make: *** [all] Error 2
:info:build make: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/work/build'
:info:build Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/work/build" && /usr/bin/make -j10 -w VERBOSE=ON 
:info:build Exit code: 2
:error:build Failed to build gdal: command execution failed
:debug:build Error code: CHILDSTATUS 59141 2
:debug:build Backtrace: command execution failed
:debug:build     while executing
:debug:build "system {*}$notty {*}$callback {*}$nice $fullcmdstring"
:debug:build     invoked from within
:debug:build "command_exec -callback portprogress::target_progress_callback build"
:debug:build     (procedure "portbuild::build_main" line 10)
:debug:build     invoked from within
:debug:build "$procedure $targetname"
:error:build See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/main.log for details.

My MacPorts is a new installation with very few applications. I have also tried other variants of GDAL but the error is the same. Only the basic version of GDAL is installed, but where many important libraries are absent.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please attach the main.log file.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In the log I see:

:info:build In file included from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/work/gdal-3.9.2/port/cpl_alibaba_oss.cpp:32:
:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gis_gdal/gdal/work/gdal-3.9.2/port/cpl_alibaba_oss.h:36:10: fatal error: 'cstddef' file not found
:info:build    36 | #include <cstddef>
:info:build       |          ^~~~~~~~~

See ProblemHotlist#clts16 for the solution. Duplicate of #70750.

[news24lor]

Hi Ryan

The removal of an old XCode directory indicated in the [ProblemHotlist#clts16] solved the problem.

Thank you