fetching distfiles for p5.30-libapreq2 hanging or crashing macOS Big Sur

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 27, 2021, at 19:38, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> OK…I’ve seemingly overcome the Big Sur 11.1 crashes with p5.30-libapreq2 installation by installing MacPorts.
> 
> Unfortunately, to install  p5.30-libapreq2 requires installing mod_perl2 variant +perl5_30. But building the latter fails! See: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62169
> 
> (That sinking feeling from getting deeper and deeper toward an abyss!)

Use the workaround I posted in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61321#comment:6 -- run:

sudo port -ns upgrade --force apr

Then of course

sudo port clean mod_perl2

before trying to install mod_perl2 again.