Ports on Big Sur x86 - portmidi

[Joshua Root]

On 2021-1-13 03:51 , Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> A few of our ports are failing on the build infrastructure, for target 
> Big Sur x86_64. And one of the culprits is portmidi, which causes 
> downstream ports to fail during the install-dependencies phase because 
> "Dependency 'portmidi' with variants '' has previously failed and is 
> required.”
> 
> But if you look at the build history for portmidi, there have only been 
> two attempts for Big Sur x86_64: Details for the first (11/20/2020) 
> don’t exist, presumably because they’ve been purged by now. The second 
> (12/14/2020) shows failures at a higher level, but when you delve into 
> the details, logs are missing:
> 
> https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-11_x86_64-builder/builds/7287 
> <https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-11_x86_64-builder/builds/7287>
> 
> Regardless, if you scrutinize the ‘install-port’ step, it failed mighty 
> quickly… in just 13 seconds. Without logs it’s hard to say - perhaps 
> this is a legitimate failing during configure? - but still suspicious.
> 
> Has anyone with Big Sur on Intel, been able to successfully install 
> portmidi?

The way it's failing is no mystery; these reports all have the same error:

<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61939#comment:description>
<https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/61623/main.log>
<https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/41610/main.log>

The question is just how to fix it.

- Josh