Index Broken on 10.5

[Fred Wright]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2019-10-20 02:37 , Fred Wright wrote:
>>
>> Recently I've been seeing this on 10.5 (both x86 and ppc):
>>
>> MacXS:~ fw$ sudo port upgrade outdated
>> Warning: No port clang-9.0 found in the index.
>> Warning: No port llvm-3.7 found in the index.
>> Warning: No port libcxx found in the index.
>> Warning: No port clang_select found in the index.
>> Warning: No port ld64 found in the index.
>> Warning: No port perl5 found in the index.
>>
>> I thought the libc++ change in 2.6 wasn't being applied to 10.5, but the
>> problem seems to be roughly coincident with the new base.  Perhaps the
>> index generator script was updated incorrectly?
>
> That's probably not actually the index being broken, but a circular
> dependency. See <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59289>.
>
> The issue causing the circular dependency is that all the system
> compilers are blacklisted by whatever port you're building, and the
> compiler selection is falling back to macports-clang, which doesn't work
> out of the box on libstdc++ platforms. This should be fixed in MacPorts
> 2.6.2.
> <https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/48ec1123ad66a71d2ca4c1fe5fe51e7f210dc363>

Will that also fix the problem where -p becomes an infinite loop in the 
presence of this error?

Fred Wright