UpdatingPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Mack Johnson wrote:

> Hi, I was updating my ports and got this error, help..
>
> unable to execute -fno-strict-aliasing: No such file or directory
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused- 
> madd -fno-common -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall - 
> Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
> Versions/2.4/include/python2.4 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o
> unable to execute -fno-strict-aliasing: No such file or directory
> building 'twisted.protocols._c_urlarg' extension
> creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.4
> creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.4/twisted
> creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.4/twisted/protocols
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused- 
> madd -fno-common -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall - 
> Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
> Versions/2.4/include/python2.4 -c twisted/protocols/_c_urlarg.c -o  
> build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.4/twisted/protocols/_c_urlarg.o
> unable to execute -fno-strict-aliasing: No such file or directory
> error: command '-fno-strict-aliasing' failed with exit status 1
>
> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1

Are you running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard? If so, this may be the well- 
known but not yet fully-understood problem that Guido and I have been  
talking about on the list today. If so, a workaround is to simply try  
the upgrade again and it should work.