Lion Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration if you upgraded from a previous version of Mac OS X. For issues after upgrading to Xcode 4.3 read the ProblemHotlist.

If you have found a new issue which is not yet listed on this page, please report to the MailingLists or file a ​ticket.

Tickets for Broken Ports

#30657

Pallet crashed during port upgrade

#32141

munin node fail to update with "Plugin XYZ Can't drop privileges: setrgid()"

#35370

hamcrest-core fails to build on Mountain Lion

#36101

apache2 @2.2.22_2 startup item

#55238

mysql57 @5.7.17: error: no member named 'ifr_ifrn' in 'ifreq'

#55920

FreeRDP @2.0.0-rc1: error: unknown type name 'AudioFormatID'

#56898

osxfuse @3.8.0: destroot fails: osxfuse.fs/Contents/Resources/load_osxfuse": no such file or directory

#57520

py-pyopencl: Does not build on libstdc++ systems; does not honor MacPorts build flags

#57590

py-fiona @1.7.13: fatal error: 'type_traits' file not found

#57677

openjdk11 install finds broken files after multiple install attempts

#59469

mosh @1.3.2: mosh-server crashing

#59925

pypy @7.3.0: reinplace /MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET/s/10\.\([0-9]*\)/10.7/ didn't change anything

#60300

petsc @3.12.4: clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault: 11

#60353

macos-fortress-dshield: unrecognized option: -replace

#60650

osquery @4.3.0: error: use of undeclared identifier '_SC_PHYS_PAGES'

#60695

py27-scipy @1.2.3: ImportError: cannot import name _distributor_init

#60769

svn2git @1.0.18: error: Qt requires a C++11 compiler and yours does not seem to be that.

#61076

wxWidgets-3.2 @3.1.4: error: use of undeclared identifier 'LSCopyDefaultApplicationURLForContentType'

#61280

clang-3.4: error: invalid version number in '-mlinker-version=6.'

#61416

hdf5 @1.10.7_0+cxx+hl: error: initializing 'H5A_t *' (aka 'struct H5A_t *') with an expression of type 'const H5A_t *' (aka 'const struct H5A_t *') discards qualifiers

#62455

pngpaste: error: use of undeclared identifier 'NSBitmapImageFileTypeGIF'

#64200

par2 @0.8.1+universal: Undefined symbols for architecture i386: ___atomic_compare_exchange ___atomic_load

#64667

mpv @0.34.1: error: expected parameter declarator (static_assert undefined)

#64722

mpv installs an app that doesn't open

#64846

terraformer: build times out on 10.8

#65564

xorg-server-legacy segfaults on xterm invocation on mountain lion

#65763

ld64-274 @274.2: opportunistically uses libxar; possible dependency cycle

#65893

fluidsynth @2.2.8 fails to build - Problem with MIDIPacketNext(packet) macro

#65896

emacs fails to compile on old Mac <= 10.7

#65897

various gtk+quartz apps do not display characters on 10.5, 10.6, 10.7

#66054

ruby31 @3.1.2: No rule to make target `all'

#66388

yt-dlp @2022.11.11: proxy mode is broken for some reason

#66640

mame @0.226_7+tools: error: no member named 'get_io_service' in 'asio::basic_stream_socket<asio::ip::tcp>'

#66736

go-1.4 @1.4.3_1 fails to build on Mtn Lion

#67145

R @4.3.0: configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries?

#67166

mpv @0.35.1, mpv-legacy: C11 atomics are required; you may need a newer compiler

#67169

meld displays file table intermittently

#67516

opencascade @7.7.0: ld: internal error: atom not found in symbolIndex(__ZN11opencascade13type_instanceI18NCollection_BufferE3getEv)

#67604

rawhide is broken at least on 10.9 down, failing at linking; also fails on Rosetta and does not pass Macports’ archflags

#67679

mogenerator needs either fix or another version for 10.8–10.11

#67836

clang-16 @16.0.6 +universal (i386/x86_64): error: aligned deallocation function of type 'void (void *, std::align_val_t) noexcept' is only available on macOS 10.13 or newer

#68116

openjdk11-temurin: fetch failure

#68301

GIMP-Lensfun @0.2.4_6 - Unable to build on Lion and Mtn Lion - Undefined symbols - Exiv2::ImageFactory::open - Exiv2::ExifKey::ExifKey - Exiv2::ExifData::operator

#68319

cargo: links with old library libgit2.1.6.dylib

#68333

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

#68404

ocaml fails to build on 10.8 Intel and earlier: clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

#68448

freetype @2.13.2: error: use of unknown builtin '__builtin_bswap16'

#68545

py311-numpy @1.26.1 build failure - cannot find cython

#68607

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

#68645

gdal @3.7.3 Fails to Build using clang-17 on Lion: error: cannot initialize a parameter of type 'char *' with an rvalue of type 'char **'

#68687

totp-cli - legacy support broken in go? - SIGSEGV: segmentation violation

#68700

go @1.17.13_0 - Legacy Go Compiler Completely Broken on Lion and Mtn Lion

#68725

go @1.7.13 - Fails to Build on Mtn Lion

#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

#69043

libknot: error: unknown type name 'sa_endpoints_t' (support earlier OS?)

#69087

py-jsonschema broken by update to @4.20 which forced Rust dependency

#69122

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

#69147

folly fails on 10.8.5: error: no type named '__cxa_increment_exception_refcount' in namespace '__cxxabiv1'

#69192

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

#69300

cmus: terminal window not browsable

#69310

lazygit fails to build for x86_64 on 10.8: malloc: *** error for object 0x5000000000000000: pointer being freed was not allocated

#69312

irrlichtmt fails to build on Mac OS 10.7 but there is a fix

#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

#69582

qt56-qtbase: error: integer value -1 is outside the valid range of values for this enumeration type

#69628

Gildas 202303a fails to link on 10.8: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "__ZNKSs7compareEPKc" etc.

#69744

tree-sitter-cpp: Undefined Symbol "_static_assert"

#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

#69790

pulseaudio @17.0_0: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'int (const struct dirent *)' to parameter of type 'int (*)(struct dirent *)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]

#69792

geany @2.0 Fails to Build on Lion - error: conflicting types for 'scandir'

#69793

KeePassXC @2.7.7_1 - No Longer Works Unless qt 5.8 or Later Is Installed

#69825

clang-16 on 10.8 tries to link against libstdc++ of gcc13

#69886

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

#70067

xdispatch2: undefined symbols for architecture on macOS 10.7 and 10.8

#70146

httping build error: tcp.c: error: 'TCP_FASTOPEN' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'TCP_MAXOLEN'?

#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

#70282

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

#70358

elmerfem: error: no member named 'random_shuffle' in namespace 'std' on macOS 10.7-10.9

#70583

nnn build fails on 10.8: src/nnn.c:421:9: error: use of undeclared identifier 'max_align_t' alignas(max_align_t) static context g_ctx[CTX_MAX];

#70676

gmic-lib: Unable to upgrade on Mtn Lion - fatal error: use of undeclared identifier 'AT_FDCWD'

#70867

clang-17: Undefined symbols: __availability_version_check

#71050

gh @2.58.0 - Fails to Build - Symbol not found: _notify_is_valid_token

#30829

munin installation fails on Lion with no JRE installed

#30873

net/mrtg @2.17.2 rateup Lion crash - WARNING: rateup died from Signal 11

#36781

cyrus-sasl2: use Heimdal instead of MIT Kerberos on Lion and later

#36869

iTunesMatchHelper: Lion buildbot fails

#37030

Digikam hangs at "Reading database" on start in Mountain Lion