MacPorts 2.5.0-beta1 now available for testing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 26, 2018, at 11:15, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> On May 25, 2018, at 12:05 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> It's "broken" in that it links with libstdc++, even though MacPorts believes it will link with libc++ on your system. The rev-upgrade code in previous versions of MacPorts did not check for this kind of "broken".
>> 
>> Fix it by fixing the build system to use the right C++ standard library (the one in the ${configure.cxx_stdlib} variable).
> 
> So this particular port comes up with this error probably because the deployment target is set to 10.6 in the xcode project. 
> 
> But there are _lots_ of ports that don’t build with the c++ stdlib specified in cxx_stdlib.
> 
> These are forced one way or the other in a way that works to fix a problem — eg. cmake and many others.

Then all of these ports need to be fixed. Either make the port use the C++ standard library that MacPorts sets in configure.cxx_stdlib, or else set configure.cxx_stdlib to the C++ standard library that the port will use (this is acceptable if the port uses no libraries and provides no libraries; mongodb is an example).


> Also, on systems with libcxxonoldersystems, xcodebuild will not accept certain settings on certain systems, even if we know they could work with our newer compilers.

Unfortunately, we have no way to tell Xcode to use one of our compilers. I believe we need to create some kind of Xcode-specific file to tell it about each of our compilers, then update the xcode portgroup to use that. Nobody's done that so far.


> We might see quite a few errors with this, I suspect…

Then we will have to fix quite a few things.