On 18/3/2026 12:08, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi!
on 10.11 I think I encountered another fall-off of libxml.
rev-upgrade fails because p5.34-clone fails for already tracked tar
format issues, so it doe snot complete. However it owuld rebuild xar.
Explicitely outdated ports are:
The following installed ports are outdated:
ccache 4.12.2_0 < 4.13.1_0
emacs-app 29.3_0 < 30.2_3
gimp2 2.10.38_2 < 2.10.38_3
gtksourceview4 4.8.4_0 < 4.8.4_1
p5.34-clone 0.470.0_0 < 0.480.0_0
poppler 24.04.0_1 < 26.01.0_0
py27-pygtk 2.24.0_6 < 2.24.0_7
none of them rebuilds automatically, unfortunately and xar is not listed.
while building gtksourceview4 I see:
--sources-top-dirs /opt/local/var/macports/build/
gtksourceview4-1158faf6/work/build/
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libxar.1.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libxar.1.dylib requires version
16.0.0 or later, but libxml2.2.dylib provides version 10.0.0
so xar is broken.
Why is /opt/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib present at all? The current
version of libxml2 installs libxml2.16.dylib.
We know that dyld sometimes produces misleading error messages, so
confirm the actual linking of xar with 'otool -L
/opt/local/lib/libxar.1.dylib'.
The binary on packages.macports.org is linked correctly:
% otool -L xar-1.8.0.498_1.darwin_15.x86_64/opt/local/lib/libxar.1.dylib
xar-1.8.0.498_1.darwin_15.x86_64/opt/local/lib/libxar.1.dylib:
/opt/local/lib/libxar.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1226.10.1)
/opt/local/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1.0.8)
/opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1.3.2)
/opt/local/libexec/openssl3/lib/libcrypto.3.dylib (compatibility
version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
/opt/local/lib/libxml2.16.dylib (compatibility version 18.0.0, current
version 18.2.0)
So I don't know how it could continue to be linked with a version of
libxml2 that isn't installed, after you ran rev-upgrade.
- Josh
