port selfupdate fails

[Tai Viinikka]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:32 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> before I start: yes, I have seen and read ticket #53414. I did not help:
>
> I tried to to to selfupdate from 2.3.5 to 2.4.1 today (MacOS 10.11.6). it
> failed with
>
> configure: === configuring in vendor/tcl/unix
> (/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/
> base/vendor/tcl/unix
> <https://api.thetopinbox.com/track/v2/link?id=9b902c74-2550-40e4-a419-f1c2ab67d41d&url=http%3A%2F%2Frsync.macports.org%2Frelease%2Fbase%2Fvendor%2Ftcl%2Funix>
> )
> configure: error: no configure script found in vendor/tcl/unix
> Command failed: CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure
> --prefix='/opt/local' --with-install-user='root'
> --with-install-group='wheel' --with-directory-mode='0755' --enable-readline
> && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
> Exit code: 1
>
> [...]
>


> what am I missing?
>
> I think I have the same problem as joerg.

Based on previous discussion here, and ticket 53414, I tried two fixes:
1)  Revert to default macports.conf:

root at recluse:~$cd  /opt/local/etc/macports

root at recluse:~$cp macports.conf.default macports.conf

My port -v self attempt ended (as it always does now) with:

> configure: === configuring in vendor/tcl/unix
> (/opt/local/var/macports/sources/
> rsync.macports.org/release/base/vendor/tcl/unix)
> configure: error: no configure script found in vendor/tcl/unix
> Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
> rsync.macports.org/release/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc
> ./configure --prefix='/opt/local' --with-install-user='root'
> --with-install-group='wheel' --with-directory-mode='0755' --enable-readline
> && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
> Exit code: 1
> Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>     http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new
> MacPorts base: command execution failed

Since this looks like a softlink problem, I followed Mihai's suggestion to "
make sure rsync_options includes the "l" flag" and now I have it:

> root at recluse:~$grep options  /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf
> rsync_options           -rtzvl --delete-after

Failure mode was the same, as above.

Any further thoughts or suggestions? My macports.conf is included as an
attachment. (Would in-line have been better?)

tai

PS: Many thanks for making 17855 things possible with MacPorts. :)


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