Snow Leopard Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration.

Tickets for Broken Ports

#36194

hellanzb doesn't start (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) - previous fix not worling

#51380

p5-b-c @1.54: broken on Snow Leopard: previous declaration of ‘I64’ was here

#55831

postgis2 fails to compile on Snow Leopard

#68382

emacs fails to build in default configuration of +nativecomp on i386 10.6 Snow Leopard as libgccjit is unavailable

#69191

folly fails to link on Snow Leopard x86_64

#70280

chez-scheme @10.0.0: builds for an inferred arch, and infers incorrectly on Snow Leopard

#34990

shogun: Undefined symbols: _drot_ _dswap_ __gfortran_concat_string _dgemm_ etc.

#35887

xrg: XRGAppDelegate.m:82: error: request for member 'frame' in something not a structure or union

#36667

HandBrakeCLI @0.10.0_0: cannot link to libiconv

#37402

phantomjs: cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-mavx"

#38958

R @3.0.0_0: build failure on OS X 10.6.8

#40112

Julius 4.2.3 fails to upgrade non-universal to universal on 10.6

#40807

graphviz @2.34.0: dot hangs when generating doxymentation on 10.6

#50736

org-mode @8.3.3, org-mode-devel @devel: emacs-24.5 hangs with 100% CPU use

#50737

Can't install camlimages (libcxx)

#52058

netcdf @4.4.1: error: redefinition of typedef ‘DCEparsestate’

#52210

libsdl2: make it build on 10.6 (against 10.6 SDK)

#53074

clhep @2.3.4.3: fails to build on 10.6 due to unsupported thread-local storage

#55920

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

#55988

xercesc3 @3.2.1: ld: duplicate symbol xercesc_3_2::ArrayJanitor<unsigned char>::ArrayJanitor(unsigned char*)in xercesc/util/.libs/TransService.o and xercesc/util/.libs/PlatformUtils.o

#56458

python*: Compiler path is baked into _sysconfigdata.py

#57520

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

#57656

gcc6: backport of cmath fixes

#58082

Gimp 2.10.8 patches for Leopard and SnowLeopard to enable +quartz variant

#58605

cryptlib @3.4.5: Build fails due to undefined _Static_assert

#58893

nodejs12 @12.9.1: error: use of undeclared identifier 'strnlen'

#59211

mariadb 5.5.65_0 fails to build on 10.6.8

#59462

py37-zmq: Symbol not found: __ZNKSt3__119__shared_weak_count13__get_deleterERKSt9type_info

#60028

p5.30-proc-guard, p5.30-log-dispatch: dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _perl_tsa_mutex_lock

#60353

macos-fortress-dshield: unrecognized option: -replace

#60650

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

#60701

gildas: Undefined symbols: _main

#60779

et @6.0.5: error: call to 'clock_gettime' is ambiguous

#60819

sfml fails to build on 10.6.8 due to missing method backingScaleFactor

#61076

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

#62455

pngpaste: error: use of undeclared identifier 'NSBitmapImageFileTypeGIF'

#62794

py-grpcio: error: use of undeclared identifier 'strnlen'

#64250

mysql57 @5.7.36_1: ld: duplicate symbol _thr_set_lock_wait_callback

#64255

php81-apache2handler: unexpectedly uses xxhashlib, which fails

#64334

scrcpy @1.21: error: expected parameter declarator

#64521

irssi fails to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta)

#64525

many ports fail to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta) due to collect2: ld terminated with signal 6 [Abort trap]

#64527

gdk-pixbuf2 does't build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta): cannot find linker (meson build system issue)

#64532

graphite2 fails to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta): unrecognized command line option '-mfpmath=sse'

#64534

rsync fails to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta) in default config (but builds with custom call)

#64542

groff fails to build for ppc on 10.6.8 (Rosetta): Invalid mnemonic 'fnstcw', 'fldcw' (upd: fix found)

#64572

llvm-3.4: Circular dependencies / dependency cycle

#64606

ld64-97 and ld64-127 fail to build against llvm-3.5 on 10.6.8 Rosetta (while earlier llvm fail to build)

#64609

OpenSP failure for ppc with gcc-4.2: configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (size_t)

#64637

py38-numpy: MyPaint fails to run on Mac OS X 10.6.8 due to numpy issues

#64698

approach to fix Haskell (GHC) for PowerPC: some progress, ghc @7.6.3 builds for ppc but there is a bug to be fixed

#64712

Perl-related errors on 10.6.8: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

#64732

barrier @2.4.0: error: expected unqualified-id before '=' token

#64833

libfido2 @1.9.0: fails on 10.6.8 Rosetta

#64913

vlang fails for PowerPC: -latomic flag needed, Header file <sys/errno.h>, needed for module `sync` was not found

#64985

atlas fails on 10.6.8 Rosetta: error: invalid parameter combination for AltiVec intrinsic

#64994

WIP on webkit2 for PowerPC

#64996

WIP on making nhc98 build

#65061

gcc: --build=${build_arch}- leads to incorrect names in case of PPC

#65135

py37-setuptools fails on PPC: ERROR Backend subproccess exited when trying to invoke build_wheel

#65147

nettle fails to build for x86_64 with gcc10/gcc11: sha256-compress.asm:208:no such instruction (fix: add --disable-assembler)

#65153

nss fails to build for x86_64 on 10.6.8 when forcing the build to use gcc11 instead of the default clang compiler: no such instruction: `pclmulqdq $16, %xmm2,%xmm0'

#65156

stack (and all of ghc) don't work on SnowLeopard, including when trying to build alex for example

#65157

ghc @9.2.2 error on 10.6.8: dyld: Symbol not found: _environ, expected in: /opt/x86_64/lib/libMacportsLegacySystem.B.dylib

#65176

go fails to upgrade to @1.17.10 for x86_64 on 10.6.8

#65180

dmd segfaults on 10.6.8; portfile has ppc/ppc64, but its dependency dmd-bootstrap is x86_64-only

#65208

py39-gobject3 fails to configure on Rosetta: ERROR: Include dir /opt/local/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/tests does not exist

#65227

uboot-tools @2020.10: Undefined symbols: "_strndup"

#65495

python310: is now broken for Rosetta: Undefined symbols: "_pthread_threadid_np"

#65508

nhc98 fails to build on Rosetta: wrong target

#65592

py310-numpy fails on Rosetta: multiarray/lowlevel_strided_loops failure

#65685

sparsehash fails to link on Rosetta: Undefined symbols "MallocExtension::instance()"

#65705

libbonobo fails on Rosetta: Undefined symbols: "_Bonobo_Sample_Echo_echo", referenced from: _main in echo-client.o

#65708

py-shiboken fails on Rosetta on shibokenmodule: malloc: *** error for object 0xa0f15754: pointer being freed was not allocated

#65722

erlsom fails to configure on Rosetta: error: Broken Erlang installation, does not exist!

#65737

clisp fails on Rosetta: Loading file macros2.lisp ...make: *** [interpreted.mem] Bus error

#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

#65917

alglib fails on Rosetta: error: size of array ‘_ae_bool_must_be_8_bits_wide’ is negative

#65918

xz-bootstrap uses clang for PPC on Rosetta

#65939

libunwind: do not force +universal on <11, perhaps?

#65945

jemalloc fails on 10.5.8: Undefined symbols: _malloc_default_purgeable_zone, __Unwind_Resume using a modified MacPorts setup on 10.5 that is defaulting to use gcc11

#65982

GCL fails on 10.5.8: new_init.c:688: error: ‘FPE_INIT’ undeclared

#65985

cctools fails to build on 10.6.8 with new GCC: error: expected ';' before 'char'

#65992

py310-pycryptodome fails to build on 10.5.8: error: #error No routines for aligned memory; error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode

#65996

luajit: unwinder errors on 10.5.8

#66025

ECL fails on Rosetta: thread_get_state failed

#66045

libedit fails to build with gcc-4.2: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token

#66178

texlive-bin fails to build with GCC for x86_64 on 10.6.8: error: shift expression overflows

#66189

gsed 4.9 fails to build with gcc-4.2 (10.5.8, 10.6.8)

#66223

tor fails to build on 10.6.8 as +universal (i386+x86_64) with Clang

#66234

taglib fails to build with gcc-4.2, needs cxx_standard 2011

#66307

Scalapack: will not configure properly on PPC since mpi PG cannot handle mpich-gcc* but wants mpich-default

#66336

p5.34-devel-mat-dumper fails to build on Leopard: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode

#66576

py-cython tries using Xcode clang on Rosetta (for ppc), needs to be blacklisted

#66577

py311-numpy uses -march=native on PPC, which breaks the build

#66625

ttyd fails to build on Rosetta: error: unknown type name 'using'

#66634

simde fails to build on 10.6.8

#66685

py38-numpy fails to build under Mac OS X 10.6.8 i386 - "No long double representation defined"

#66691

nxcomp @3.5.99.22: error: use of undeclared identifier 'strndup'

#66743

gnupg2 is broken on 10.6.8 now: error: redefinition of typedef ‘KEYRING_HANDLE’

#66745

smlnj uses clang and inconsistent flags in Rosetta, fails to build

#66759

meson on 10.6.8 Rosetta has arch issues: built for ppc7400 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)

#66908

ruby30 @3.0.5_1 doesn't work properly on 10.6 ppc

#66926

mold uses wrong flags with GCC, breaks the build

#66927

boost: backport fix for context from boost181

#66984

R: error with generating png images: figure margins too large

#66999

howl does not respect Macports archflags

#67049

valgrind fails on 10.6.8 x86_64 with assembler errors: {standard input}:1352:no such instruction: `rdrand %r11d'

#67137

fftw fails to build on Rosetta: Macports arch settings not respected

#67220

mimalloc broken on 10.6: error: stdatomic.h: No such file or directory, etc.

#67278

mariadb-10.11 uses static asserts incompatible with 32-bit

#67304

R @4.3.0: configure: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program

#67314

R: do we need sysroot to be detected on systems without xcrun?

#67369

apache2 fails on Rosetta even when apr-util is fixed

#67399

BoCA fails to build on 10.6.8 Rosetta: config.cpp: error: ‘kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC_ELD’ is not a member of ‘CA’

#67415

fsplib fails to build on 10.6.8 with Clang: libfsplib.a(fsplib.o) malformed object (unknown load command 2)

#67425

bmake fails on Rosetta

#67516

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

#67544

boost176 lacks math_tr1 on 10.6.8?

#67581

viennacl fails to link on 10.6.8 Rosetta

#67598

bart fails to build on 10.6.8 POWERPC: Undefined symbols: "_vdprintf", "_fmemopen"

#67604

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

#67626

libmypaint @1.6.1: error: redefinition of typedef 'gchar' etc.

#67683

ld64-97: error: 'TARGET_OS_WATCH' is not defined, evaluates to 0

#67776

PDAL fails to build on 10.6.8: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "___cxa_thread_atexit"

#67916

mpv @0.36.0: when building on 10.6-for-PPC with gcc-12: ao_coreaudio_utils.c: error: implicit declaration of function 'getpid'

#68017

gtk3 fails on 10.6 i386 32bit missing symbol _macroman2ucs

#68055

codeblocks fails to build with gcc12 on 10.6 when build as ppc: error: static assertion failed: comparison object must be invocable as const

#68075

transmission-qt fails to build on 10.6 Intel

#68144

libextractor @1.11: fails to build on Rosetta: Undefined symbols: "_LE_le16toh"

#68199

frozen fails on 10.6.8 Rosetta: error: modification of 'ze_map' is not a constant expression; error: non-constant condition for static assertion

#68206

gdk-pixbuf2 fails on ppc64 (10.5) and Rosetta with multiple undefined symbols

#68214

json-glib does not respect Macports arch flags

#68215

glances does not run on 10.6.8

#68223

libsoup-2.4 does not respect Macports arch settings, which breaks build on Rosetta

#68230

oofcanvas fails to configure on 10.6: Package 'gl', required by 'epoxy', not found

#68333

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

#68383

python312 fails on 10.6.8 Rosetta: error: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_threadid_np'; did you mean 'pthread_is_threaded_np'?

#68403

mbedtls3 broken on 10.6.8 Intel: error: "Must use `-mpclmul -msse2 -maes` for MBEDTLS_AESNI_C"

#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)

#68517

thrift fails to build on 10.6.8 / i386+x86_64

#68519

wxWidgets-3.0 conflicts wxWidgets-3.0-cxx11: Error: Failed to activate wxWidgets-3.0: Image error

#68598

rustc fails on 10.6 : undefined ___mpls_readdir

#68607

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

#68767

py-cryptography needs a fallback non-Rust version

#68773

gimp-lqr-plugin fails on i386 - duplicate symbol _state

#68798

photoqt-qt4 fails to build with clang: error: incompatible pointer types assigning to 'CustomPushButton *' from 'QPushButton *'

#68871

btop broken on Catalina and below

#68882

vim broken on PowerPC and <10.6 Intel due to unconditional inclusion of libdispatch

#68890

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

#68908

py-numpy: pep517 backend broken: ERROR: Unknown compiler(s): [['cython'], ['cython3']]

#68924

py311-cython uses clang for ppc on 10.6.8 Rosetta

#68926

gcc10-bootstrap @10.5.0+universal: is it supposed to have been tested on i386+ppc?

#68962

legacysupport: the macports-libcxx modifications put cxx-specific flags into the CPP flags, causing C builds to fail

#68993

libffi build error on 10.6 i386: FATAL:symbol: ___x86.get_pc_thunk.bx can't be a weak_definition

#69000

libcxx-powerpc: can we get rid of depending on system libstdc++ completely?

#69006

LimeChat broken on every macOS from Mojave down

#69015

rb18-rake conflicts with rb-rake

#69037

FFView complains about missing 10.3.9 SDK

#69043

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

#69051

qt5.x on PowerPC: approaches to bypass broken Cocoa

#69087

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

#69092

xz-bootstrap and python27-bootstrap pick llvm-gcc-4.2 instead of gcc-4.2 on Leopard

#69110

NetSurf @3.11: Undefined symbols: _getline

#69121

py312-cython tries to use Xcode clang on 10.6.8 Rosetta and fails

#69122

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

#69125

Pythons for PowerPC: introduce a path-style dependency and separate ports (?)

#69147

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

#69149

lzma fails to build on 10.6 i386 with gcc: no such instruction: `xgetbv'

#69154

Make a separate tree for 10.6 pre-release-specific fixes

#69159

spice-server @0.15.2: error: expected identifier or '('

#69161

rust @1.71.1: Undefined symbols on Mac OS X 10.6.8 CoreDuo

#69178

tilde fails to run: Program received signal EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION, Illegal instruction/operand

#69188

libmacho fails to build on 10.6.8 x86_64: Assertion failed: (!"Unknown operand"), function LinkLocation, file /SourceCache/dwarf_utilities/dwarf_utilities-87/source/DWARFdSYM.cpp

#69197

algol68g fails to build on 10.6 i386: error: 'EXPORT_DYNAMIC_FLAGS' undeclared

#69278

fpm build error: Undefined symbols for architecture i386: "_opendir$INODE64"

#69302

p5.34-lwp-mediatypes fails on 10.6.8 Rosetta: [blib/man1/.exists] Error 126

#69304

v8-8.3 fails on i386: error: static assertion failed: m != 0 && ((m & (m - 1)) == 0)

#69337

MenuMeters uses x86_64 strip with i386 build

#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

#69384

gklib @20230327: error: 'lnlen' may be used uninitialized in this function

#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

#69509

rb32-numo-narray build error: cogen.rb: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting kEND

#69523

gpac build error on 10.6: error: 'GL_FRAMEBUFFER' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'GL_DRAW_BUFFER'?

#69525

gimp2 does not open image files on (on ppc?)

#69551

libsdl2_image error with gcc: error: attributes should be specified before the declarator in a function definition

#69570

cl-cffi fails to build on PowerPC: error: 'FFI_SYSV' undeclared (first use in this function)

#69572

dash @0.5.12: Undefined symbols _stpncpy

#69577

xorg-xtrans, xorg-libXt opportunistically use Java via fop, which can break the build

#69614

minizip fails to build as universal (i386 + x86_64): llvm-gcc-4.2: -E, -S, -save-temps and -M options are not allowed with multiple -arch flags

#69673

graphene cannot be built with gcc-4.2 for Intel: mmintrin.h: error: no previous prototype for ‘_mm_empty’

#69686

gtk3, gtk3-devel cannot build as universal on x86: ninja: error: unknown target 'CC=/opt/local/bin/clang-mp-11 -arch x86_64'

#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

#69864

poppler: Failed to configure poppler: Invalid value for configure.compiler:

#69986

stress-ng fails to build with multiple errors

#70011

cpprestsdk @2.10.19 build fails: error: 'locale_t' does not name a type

#70015

ettercap opportunistically uses libtapi if it is installed

#70019

R-stan4bart @0.0-8: sh: --version: command not found

#70026

trojita with Qt4 does not see its plugins and cannot set IMAP

#70118

openfortivpn needs vdprintf implementation to fix older systems

#70146

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

#70156

knot fails to build on 10.6: error: unknown type name 'sa_endpoints_t'

#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

#70235

opencascade: wrong handling of symbols on older macOS

#70282

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

#70383

opencv3: build against native SDKs, do not force 10.7 SDK which breaks powerpc builds

#70401

gtk-based apps on legacy systems (or powerpc?): binaries work when launched directly, but not via .app bundle wrapper

#70456

pngloss: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode

#70480

brlaser fails to build with gcc, because it does not understand -weak_framework passed directly (-Wl,-weak_framework works fine)

#70496

libvirt broken by meson on < 10.7

#70518

arch fails to build on ppc: error: #error memmove does not exist on this platform, nor is a substitute available

#70531

clew @20170324: error: unknown type name 'AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7_AND_LATER'

#70544

xmake @2.9.4: broken on powerpc

#70568

dateutils fails to build on 10.6

#70572

dvdisaster @0.73.2: messages.pot: syntax error

#70581

lastpass-cli fails on 10.6: error: CommonCrypto/CommonKeyDerivation.h: No such file or directory

#70619

discord-rpc fails to build on 10.6: error: '__bridge' undeclared (first use in this function)

#70625

glances again broken by a dependency requiring Rust

#70693

cargo @0.79.0: error occurred: Bad file descriptor (os error 9)

#70711

uhubctl build error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before numeric constant

#70867

clang-17: Undefined symbols: __availability_version_check

#70970

mpv-legacy: playing back video does not function

#71227

libvirt-glib @5.0.0: error: #error You need at least GCC v4.8 to compile QEMU

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