El Capitan Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration.

Updating MacPorts Base

MacPorts must be re-installed in a version configured for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

Ensure you have at least the command line tools installed by running xcode-select --install from a Terminal. Make sure to also run this even if you have Xcode installed, because some ports fail to build without it. You also have to run sudo xcodebuild -license after doing this.

If you get CoreSimulator assertion failure

Ensure your macports user has the correct home directory. (#49101)

Tickets for Broken Ports

#48471

FSF gcc48 fails to compile projects on El Capitan due to OS X SDK bug in Availability.h

#49069

emacs-mac-app @5.9: error: no type or protocol named 'WebFrameLoadDelegate'

#49094

phantomjs 2.0 fails to build on OS X 10.11 El Capitan

#49104

star @1.5.2: mkdir: /etc/default: Operation not permitted

#49129

HandBrakeCLI @0.10.0: configure.py: error: invalid xcconfig: osx1011.x86_64

#49290

mongodb does not start after upgrade to El Capitan

#50040

Aquaterm 1.1.1 El Capitan build failure

#50075

zeroc-ice35: error: expression with side effects will be evaluated despite being used as an operand to 'typeid'

#51133

Xcode 7.3 bug: __DATA/__thread_bss extends beyond end of file

#52245

cups-pdf mainly broken on El Capitan OS X 10.11

#53161

tuntaposx: kernel extensions have to be signed

#53204

Error: Processing of port netcdf-fortran failed

#53861

gmake @4.2.1: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime

#54781

osxfuse @3.6.3: use of undeclared identifiers 'VOL_CAP_FMT_NO_IMMUTABLE_FILES' 'VOL_CAP_FMT_NO_PERMISSIONS'

#62007

postgresql11-server @11.10 startupitem don't start

#62455

pngpaste: error: use of undeclared identifier 'NSBitmapImageFileTypeGIF'

#62459

wxMaxima @21.02.0: error: unknown type name 'nullptr_t'; did you mean 'std::nullptr_t'?

#62501

py27-sqlalchemy @1.4.1_0 broke buildbot-0.8

#62709

libgcc10 @ 10.3.0_0+universal.darwin_15.i386-x86_64: libgcc/libgcc2.c:1989:10: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction: 4 building mulxc3

#62735

optool @ 0.1_0+universal.darwin_15.i386-x86_64: synthesized property ('rule' | 'position') naming problems

#63402

ccache @ 4.4_0 error: static_assert failed "unique_ptr constructed with null function pointer deleter"

#64344

scrcpy @1.21: clang: error: unknown argument: '-flto-jobs=0'

#64478

openjdk17-openj9: crashing on El Captain

#64564

unison @ 2.51.5+aqua: There is no aqua GUI

#64835

openssh @8.9p1_3+gsskex+kerberos5+xauth.darwin_15.x86_64: Failed to patch openssh: command execution failed

#65193

arti @0.3.0: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_clock_gettime_nsec_np"

#66121

lens @6.1.14: Playwright does not support webkit on mac10.13

#67194

SendMIDI, ReceiveMIDI: The 10.14 SDK (Xcode 10.1+) is required to build JUCE apps

#67443

yubico-authenticator @5.1.0: says it requires macOS 10.13 or later on 10.11

#67888

blink @1.0.0: error: implicit declaration of function 'clock_gettime' is invalid in C99

#68179

emacs @29.1_1: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime

#68333

libfido2 @1.13.0: error: use of undeclared identifier 'id'

#68607

tatami, tatami-devel fail to build with clang on < 10.14: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "___kmpc_for_static_fini" etc.

#68871

btop broken on Catalina and below

#68890

tiledb @2.18.2 fails to build with clangs on Catalina and earlier

#69006

LimeChat broken on every macOS from Mojave down

#69098

dispenso fails to build on 10.10–10.11: error: no member named 'malloc' in the global namespace

#69099

folly fails on 10.11: error: no member named 'tcpi_txretransmitpackets' in 'tcp_connection_info'

#69122

smtube fails to display video previews if built with Qt4: SSL issue?

#69192

folly +tests needs a better fix for aligned_alloc on macOS <11; perhaps, switch to posix_memalign

#69347

rocksdb: clang builds fail on < 10.13: error: aligned allocation function of type 'void *(std::size_t, std::align_val_t)' is only available on macOS 10.13 or newer

#69410

rb*-unf_ext tries to link against libstdc++ on 10.7–10.12 with clang

#69469

rizin fails to build on 10.12 and below: error: too many arguments provided to function-like macro invocation; error: use of undeclared identifier 'POSIX_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_DEFAULT'

#69496

lpython needs filesystem on < 10.15 when Clang is used

#69786

R-quanteda now fails on 10.12 and earlier with libc++: error: aligned deallocation function of type 'void (void *, std::align_val_t) noexcept' is only available on macOS 10.13 or newer

#69886

rb30-nokogiri, rb31-nokogiri, rb32-nokogiri, rb33-nokogiri @1.16.4: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

#70022

emacs @29.3: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime

#70171

sigil-qt4 fails to build with clang: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "boost::scoped_static_mutex_lock::scoped_static_mutex_lock(boost::static_mutex&, bool)"

#70194

rawproc: builds with clangs fail on < 10.12

#70229

R-RcppParallel dependents using libc++ on < 10.12 need a fix for aligned deallocation: error: aligned deallocation function of type 'void (void *, std::align_val_t) noexcept' is only available on macOS 10.13 or newer

#70282

folly @2024.06.03.00 fails on Catalina and below with libc++: error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'std::function<LocalRefCount ()>'

#70488

frescobaldi2 @2.20.0: Launch error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt4'

#70689

MyPaint @2.0.1_1: Crashes on startup; after rebuilding from source, RuntimeError: Unknown install type; could not determine paths

#70867

clang-17: Undefined symbols: __availability_version_check

#50148

sudo port install kate goes to sleep on El Capitan 10.11.2

#61612

xorg-libx11 @1.7.0 variant +docs does not build on El Capitan, OK on Big Sur (Java problem?)

#61688

zettlr @1.8.0 on El Capitan fails rev-upgrade, missing system MediaPlayer framework

#62293

clang-9.0 @ 9.0.1_3: Build failure on El Capitan with Xcode 7.3.1

#62425

py-pikepdf @2.8.0.post2 - Build on El Capitan needs a more modern compiler

#62988

git @2.31.1: gitk does not start on el capitan

#63405

openssh @8.4p1_6 on El Capitan broken today - also keychain gives error message.

#69835

gnucash: Build error on El Capitan