hypermail port problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:31 AM, jerome schatten wrote:

> *S*ystem: MacMini -- late 2014 - Yosemite 10.10.1; Xcode installed.
> 
> I've installed macports 2.3.3 with no problems; I've installed port hypermail with no 'apparent' problem. I've followed the MacPorts Guide every step of the way.
> 
> My first question is this: The install of the hypermail port gives:
> 
> jeromes-Mac-mini:bin jeromeschatten$ sudo port install hypermail
> 
> Warning: The Xcode Command Line Tools don't appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.
> Warning: Install them by running `xcode-select --install'.
> --->  Fetching archive for hypermail
> --->  Attempting to fetch hypermail-2.3.0_1.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/hypermail
> --->  Attempting to fetch hypermail-2.3.0_1.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://packages.macports.org/hypermail
> --->  Installing hypermail @2.3.0_1
> --->  Activating hypermail @2.3.0_1
> --->  Cleaning hypermail
> --->  Updating database of binaries
> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
> --->  No broken files found.
> 
> 
> But Xcode IS installed and the tools work as I've used them elsewhere. Is this a or is this not a problem?

Yes, MacPorts requires the Xcode command line tools, and Xcode. These are two separate installations, as of OS X 10.7 Lion.


> If it's not a problem, then at this point, I should be able to launch the hypermail binary with a './hypermail' and it should run. But it doesn't. The cursor simply moves to the next line and it sits there. No error messages, nothing.
> 
> I looked at the hypermail and xcode process with top and it reports:
> PID   COMMAND      %CPU      TIME     #TH  #WQ  #PORT MEM    PURG CMPR PGRP
> [...]
> 1435  hypermail           0.0       00:00.00    1    0    15 604K   0B     0B   1435
> 
> 1404  Xcode                0.0       00:02.26    8    1    249 66M    72K   0B   1404
> 
> So, it doesn't look like hypermail is doing much and Xcode is indeed there.

Xcode does not need to be running to use MacPorts, it just needs to be installed, as do the separate Xcode command line tools.

You didn't get an error while installing hypermail, so I would not suspect absence of the Xcode command line tools to have been a problem in this particular case. But you should install them to prevent future problems with other ports.