R-app

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 26, 2020, at 07:56, Lenore Horner wrote:

> I filled a ticket 2 weeks ago with log because R-app doesn’t build.

Looks like you're referring to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60345 which I've closed as a duplicate of https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59482.


> I’m afraid that understanding what the log is telling me - beyond that there are lots of files it can’t find/ can’t write to - is over my head.  Is R-app permanently broken or is there some way other than filing a ticket to get help with getting it to compile?  I’m on 10.14.6.
> 
> The first error I see in the log is 
> :info:build 2020-04-11 09:57:05.434 xcodebuild[30927:709640] Error Domain=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError Code=159 "Unable to determine SimDeviceSet, set_path=/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to determine SimDeviceSet, set_path=/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fd651108ff0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=12 "Cannot allocate memory" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Allocation or initialization failed., NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to initialize simulator device set.}}}

We don't need iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/watchOS simulators for MacPorts since we're only building for macOS. It's baffling why xcodebuild wants to have anything to do with the simulators when they're not needed nor wanted. Hopefully this is just a warning you can ignore.


> But then there are a series of can’t open or can’t create files starting with 
> :info:build 2020-04-11 09:57:05.506 xcodebuild[30927:709638] [MT] IDELogStore: Failed to open log store at /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/R-cowjbsghamrjwebkaacwdxnbihql/Logs/Build
> :info:build 2020-04-11 09:57:05.506 xcodebuild[30927:709638] [MT] IDELogStore: Failed to open Build log store: Error Domain=IDEFoundationErrorDomain Code=1 "Unable to create log store directory at '/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/R-cowjbsghamrjwebkaacwdxnbihql/Logs/Build': (513) You don’t have permission to save the file “Build” in the folder “Logs”." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to create log store directory at '/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/R-cowjbsghamrjwebkaacwdxnbihql/Logs/Build': (513) You don’t have permission to save the file “Build” in the folder “Logs”.}. User info: {
> :info:build     NSLocalizedDescription = "Unable to create log store directory at '/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/R-cowjbsghamrjwebkaacwdxnbihql/Logs/Build': (513) You don\U2019t have permission to save the file \U201cBuild\U201d in the folder \U201cLogs\U201d.";
> :info:build }.

This sounds like the usual Xcode 10+ derived data problem. See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57137. Don't know why nobody who's using Xcode 10+ has developed a general fix for that yet.


> And why is SnowLeopard coming in?
> :info:build --- xcodebuild: WARNING: Configuration SnowLeopard64 is not in the project. Building default configuration.

The R-app portfile instructs xcodebuild to use a configuration called SnowLeopard64. No such configuration exists in this software (anymore; presumably one by that name used to exist; currently it seems to contain configurations named Lion64 and MLion64) so it builds whatever the default configuration of this Xcode project called is instead. The portfile should be changed to specify whatever the actual configuration name is, or if the default one is suitable then that line can just be removed.


> Then I finally noticed a report error to apple line.  I’ll do that in a few moments.  But generally a ton of stuff seems to be going ok and then I start getting ibtool warnings and in particular complaints that building for older than 10.6 is not supported.  Since I’m on 10.14.6, something’s gone awry.

Yes the real error I think is:

error: Compiling for earlier than macOS 10.6 is no longer supported

Nothing has gone awry per se; it's just that the particular file about which xcodebuild shows this error message (the dutch translation of the syntax colors preference pane) (and perhaps other xib files as well) is configured to build for older than 10.6 (perhaps unintentionally, since the rest of the project seems to be meant for 10.7 and later), and the latest Xcode no longer allows building for older than 10.6. The xib file(s) will have to be adjusted by the software's developer (or, if they are unavailable, the portfile's maintainer) to specify a different (newer) deployment target, or ideally not to specify one at all (if that is possible for xib files) and let MacPorts do it. A newer version of R-app is available from the developer; the first step should probably be to try to update the port to that version.