<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Port symlinks does install OK. Environment look OK to me — see below.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I didn’t show my whole .profile here, but the only actual change to it since worked OK with OS X El Capitan & macports is the date in the comment line “# MacPorts Installer addition on …: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[~]$ which clang</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/usr/bin/clang</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[~]$ clang --version</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.1.0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Thread model: posix</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[~]$ printenv</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">MANPATH=/Applications/Math/Macaulay2/Macaulay2-1.9/share/man:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SHELL=/bin/bash</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">TERM=xterm-256color</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">TMPDIR=/var/folders/sv/1n3g81qj2bs90bfrvxr1pg780000gn/T/</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.1o6rfG1s0b/Render</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=387</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">TERM_SESSION_ID=13F982A2-7E7C-4D94-A24D-580AD0E5AB95</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">USER=me</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.1OSonPyIcF/Listeners</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0x0:0x0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PATH=/opt/local/lib/mysql56/bin:/Applications/Math/Macaulay2/Macaulay2-1.9/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/apache2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Applications/Programming/Python/anaconda/bin:/Users/me/Library/Application Support/GoodSync:/Users/me/bin:/Applications/Math/Singular/3-1-6/ix86Mac-darwin:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PWD=/Users/me</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_111.jdk/Contents/Home</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.Y3hQQRkvmb/unix_domain_listener</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">LANG=en_US.UTF-8</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">XPC_FLAGS=0x0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PS1=[\u@\h:\w]$ </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SHLVL=1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">HOME=/Users/me</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">LOGNAME=me</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">CLASSPATH=:/Library/Java/Extensions/mysql-connector-java-bin.jar:/Users/me/Library/texmf/texhyphj</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">INFOPATH=/Applications/Math/Macaulay2/Macaulay2-1.9/share/info</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.KahliQQZCD/org.macosforge.xquartz:0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">_=/usr/bin/printenv</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2016, at 9:28 PM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">here’s what I do when stuff like this happens</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">check your path `printenv` and see if it’s set correctly</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cat ~/.profile</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>try “which clang” and “clang —version” <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">try writing up a very simple “hello.c” source file and see if it compiles (with the -v option to see what happens) and whether the executable runs</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">install some really really simple ports, like symlinks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…</div><div class="">at least make sure the basics work</div><div class="">…</div><div class="">if all that works correctly, then … gotta dig deeper</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2016, at 6:20 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I did install both Xcode 8.1 and the corresponding Xcode 8.1 tools for Sierra. (not sure how to verify the version of command-line tools there.)</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">[~”]$ <span class="" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">xcode-select --install</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">[murray@Blackstone:~]$ xcode-select -p</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2016, at 9:11 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">So I started doing a reinstall of ports for migration, and at first got a “no C compiler available”</blockquote></div><br class="">Sounds like missing command line tools to me.<br class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank" class="">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div class="">unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Home (240)-246-7240<br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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display: inline !important;" class="">macports-users mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">macports-users@lists.macosforge.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; 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---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Home (240)-246-7240<br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""><br class="">
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