On Dec 7, 2017, at 00:27, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 15:20, db wrote: >> On 6 Dec 2017, at 00:46, Ken Cunningham wrote: >>> clang/llvm 5.0 is the current cxx11 1.1 compiler, so that is what is being >>> called up. >> >> Shouldn't such portgroup dependencies be listed by `port rdeps`? I don't see >> it, for example, in highlight. > > What I think happened is that clang-5.0 was not installed, so MacPorts > wanted to build it first, but it needed a compiler to build 5.0 and > went for clang-4.0 for that. But clang-4.0 was not installed either, > so it needed to build it first and had to pick a suitable compiler for > that and so went for clang-3.9 for that job (3.9 was marked as "failed > in an earlier attempt" due to problems with cmake, so it didn't build > anything at all). > > It's just unconfirmed speculation though.
Fixing this will probably help: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55444
