Index Broken on 10.5

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 19, 2019, at 16:55, Fred Wright wrote:

>> 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?

If it removes the circular dependency, then yes.

MacPorts behavior when a circular dependency exists is undefined, so we must all work to ensure that no circular dependencies exist.