weird freezing when installing openssl3 on 10.7

[Gagan Sidhu]

found the issue fred! it’s my kext that was attempting to patch the fdexec issue from 10.7 that doesn’t exist in 10.8

it needs a little more work!

sorry about this!

Thanks,
Gagan

> On Sep 23, 2024, at 9:44 PM, Gagan Sidhu via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> i guess my victory declaration was a little premature fred.
> 
> this time it arose with cmake-bootstrap. just using 11g63 and xcode 4.6.3 on VMWare 11.5.7 on brojave 10.14.6.
> 	
> using gnutar and with /opt/local/libexec/gnubin on PATH preceding /usr/bin seemed to fix it.
> 
> but then, when i try again to install all the dependencies for lldb-5.0, it arose on openssl-3.20.
> 	- doesn’t seem to be a specific port. something up with 11g63, ports, and bsdtar.
> 
> strange i know, but i thought i should share this. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Gagan
> 
>> On Sep 23, 2024, at 9:12 PM, Gagan Sidhu via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> looks like a fresh install did the trick.
>> 
>> thanks fred i appreciate the quick response.
>> 
>> still unusual but who cares. “i should expect it” when i’m booting an unofficial kernel for evaluation purposes, and then expecting everything to be okay after re-installing the combo update.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Gagan
>> 
>>> On Sep 23, 2024, at 8:07 PM, Gagan Sidhu <broly at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> thanks fred.
>>> 
>>> turns out wiping /opt/local didn’t help either. must be an issue that arose from using a custom kernel, followed by re-installing the 10.7.5 combo update.
>>> 		-i assumed would the combo update would have overwritten overwritten the kernels and anything else (it was just the mach_kernel that i replaced) that needed restoration.
>>> 
>>> but perhaps this caused an issue.
>>> 
>>> will look into it. thanks.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gagan
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 23, 2024, at 7:57 PM, Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, Gagan Sidhu via macports-dev wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> anyone else get this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> and it just is stuck at the assembly file:
>>>> [...]
>>>> 
>>>> I don't see that on 10.7 here, with any of the 10 variant combinations that I usually use when testing openssl3 here, so you'll need to figure out what's wrong with your system.  Make sure the disk isn't full, though usually that tends to cause weird errors rather than hangs.
>>>> 
>>>> Fred Wright
>>> 
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