hypermail port problem

[jerome schatten]

Looks to me that the command line tools were installed -- are not the 
compilers part of command line tools? Maybe they're not in the expected 
place in Yosemite?


Last login: Thu Jan 22 23:41:26 on ttys001
jeromes-Mac-mini:~ jeromeschatten$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0
Thread model: posix
jeromes-Mac-mini:~ jeromeschatten$

j.

On 2015-01-22 11:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 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.
>
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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