trace mode fails with sh: /usr/bin/tar: No such file or directory

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Dec 17 21:05:17 UTC 2017


On 2017-12-18 07:54 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 17, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2017-12-18 07:18 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> I haven’t been able to use trace mode to test port installs because of
>>> the following error. Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Aside from running master? :)
>>
>> Welcome to the bleeding edge.
>>
>> - Josh
> 
> 
> thanks for  the note. I assumed you guys were all over it.
> 
> A simplish workaround for now is to extract it first, and then build it in trace mode. I should have thought of doing that sooner ;>

To be more concrete, it's an interaction between a recent change on
master to use copyfile for the SIP workaround, and something that
changed in the 10.13.2 update.

- Josh


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