[MacPorts] #67334: legacy-support @1.0.9 does not install on PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11, because Source file /opt/local/var/macports/software/legacy-support/mpextractqTt8R9gl/opt/local/bin/which does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it) (was: lbzip2 uses legacy-support and fails when upgrading it)

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#67334: legacy-support @1.0.9 does not install on PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11,
because Source file /opt/local/var/macports/software/legacy-
support/mpextractqTt8R9gl/opt/local/bin/which does not appear to exist
(cannot lstat it)
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  Reporter:  ballapete       |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect          |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports           |    Version:  2.8.1
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:  tiger ppc
      Port:  legacy-support  |
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Changes (by ballapete):

 * keywords:  tiger => tiger ppc
 * port:  lbzip2 legacy-support => legacy-support


Comment:

 I finally performed:

 {{{
 root 276 /\ cd /
 root 277 /\ gtar vxf /opt/local/var/macports/software/legacy-support
 /legacy-support-1.0.9_0.darwin_8.ppc.tbz2
 ./opt/local/lib/libMacportsLegacySupport.dylib
 ./opt/local/lib/libMacportsLegacySystem.B.dylib
 ./opt/local/lib/libMacportsLegacySupport.dylib
 ./opt/local/lib/libMacportsLegacySystem.B.dylib
 root 278 /\ port -vdf activate legacy-support @1.0.9_0
 DEBUG: Using normalized porturl
 file:///opt/local/var/macports/registry/portfiles/legacy-
 support-1.0.9_0/bc0576529de56cf84d6bd86ef149c838aac0d83b4db131755761ef887f5cac5c-4941
 DEBUG: Changing to port directory:
 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portfiles/legacy-
 support-1.0.9_0/bc0576529de56cf84d6bd86ef149c838aac0d83b4db131755761ef887f5cac5c-4941
 DEBUG: OS darwin/8.11.0 (macOS 10.4.11) arch powerpc
 DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup clang_dependency 1.0 from
 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portgroups/4446cac3f94b1a22c11feb3d3d7a049930727695ab831ec0e80bd646c258e109-580/clang_dependency-1.0.tcl
 DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup github 1.0 from
 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portgroups/110e17685b449516492a801cf1f13340dd4bb72be91329bcbc12bfba904fddc3-4697/github-1.0.tcl
 DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup compiler_wrapper 1.0 from
 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portgroups/b7ed74c45721fa0cb02d7ac31c12e2585f1d3264cb56e28db5a95af228e6ce3a-7354/compiler_wrapper-1.0.tcl
 DEBUG: Re-registering default for compwrap.add_compiler_flags
 DEBUG: Re-registering default for use_configure
 DEBUG: Re-registering default for universal_variant
 DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup makefile 1.0 from
 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portgroups/5ea5abacffc6a82b2148e0ecda030705fbd26018f99ee5a9bee68b284cf1c10d-12993/makefile-1.0.tcl
 DEBUG: Re-registering default for configure.universal_args
 ...
 }}}

 This made `lbzip2` work again. Another cause of the failures were almost
 100 core files like these:

 {{{
 total 26959960
 -r--------   1 root      admin       138M 30 Apr 09:02 core.24197
 -r--------   1 root      admin       138M 30 Apr 08:59 core.24184
 -r--------   1 root      admin       138M 30 Apr 08:43 core.23706
 -r--------   1 root      admin       141M 30 Apr 08:30 core.23674
 …
 -r--------   1 root      admin       138M 30 Apr 01:09 core.22962
 -r--------   1 pete      admin       138M 30 Apr 00:59 core.19893
 -r--------   1 macports  admin       155M 30 Apr 00:52 core.10138
 }}}

 This can explain why no `whois` version could exist – no disk space left
 for it? Tiger is now upgrading `OpenSSL`.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/67334#comment:3>
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