<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On the other hand, I can manually restore at least some ports, e.g.:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> apache-ant @1.10.1_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> bzip2 @1.0.6_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> cctools @895_4+llvm40 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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font-stretch: normal; 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=""> libcxx @3.9.1_0+universal (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> libedit @20170329-3.1_2 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> libffi @3.2.1_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> libgcc @7.2.0_1 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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font-stretch: normal; 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=""> llvm_select @2_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> mpfr @3.1.6_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> ncurses @6.0-20170916_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> openssl @1.0.2m_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> xar @1.6.1_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> xz @5.2.3_0 (active)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> zlib @1.2.11_0 (active)</span></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Is something wrong with the restore_ports.tcl script? (I did newly download the version (0.1) that I used via:</div><pre class="wiki" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); box-shadow: rgb(238, 238, 238) 0px 0px 1em; border-top-left-radius: 0.3em; border-top-right-radius: 0.3em; border-bottom-right-radius: 0.3em; border-bottom-left-radius: 0.3em; margin: 1em 1.75em; padding: 0.25em; overflow: auto; font-size: 13px;"> curl --location --remote-name <a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-contrib/raw/master/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-contrib/raw/master/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl</a></pre><div> <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Nov2017, at 4:53 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@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; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">After upgrading macOS from Sierra (10.12.6) to High Sierra (10.13.1), I updated Xcode to 9.1 and executed<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">xcode-select -p</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">which gave: <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">and then:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> xcode-select —install</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">which installed (via App Store > Updates) "Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode” Version 9.0.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">If I try <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">xcode-select —install</span> again, I see:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I went through the procedure at <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to migrate MacPorts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In step 3, after saving installed ports (substep a) and saving the list of requested ports (substep b), I uninstalled all installed ports (substep c) and cleaned partially-completed builds (substep d).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now in doing substep e, ending with...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I get warning messages:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> Warning: All compilers are either blacklisted or unavailable; defaulting to first fallback option</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> Warning: All compilers are either blacklisted or unavailable; defaulting to first fallback option</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> Warning: All compilers are either blacklisted or unavailable; defaulting to first fallback option</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> Error: we appear to be stuck, exiting...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> infinite loop</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> while executing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> "sort_ports $portList"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> invoked from within</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> "set operationList [sort_ports $portList]"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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=""> (file "./restore_ports.tcl" line 285)</span></div></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="">I wondered about the fact that Xcode itself is 9.1, whereas the Command Line tools are 9.0, yet.</div><div class="">Is that the cause of the problem? I don’t see how to install any later version of the Xcode Command Line Tools.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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