> On Dec 23, 2016, at 10:36, H.-Ulrich (Uli) Wienands <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am trying to install octave on a Mac Pro running 10.8.(latest). I have > Xcode 5.1.1 installed. > > A bunch of deps is installed successfully but then it chokes. > > I finally track this down to an inability to install any compilers (? that is > what it appears to be). > > Trying to build up from the bottom I install llvm 3.4, 3.5 etc. Works ok > until I hit llvm-3.9. It appears llvm-3. > 9 has itsels in its list of dependencies. > > I made sure my Macports installaion was up-to-date (I installed it only a > couple of weeks ago but still I updated everything) and tried to clean > whatever would not install. No joy. > > Here is the tail from the log of my atttempt to install llvm-3.9. Note that > none of the clangs would install. And I never get an error message beyond > "Installatino of ..." has failed. I also tried installing gcc46 (which I have > installed even on a fairly ancient on a 10.5 PPC system, no joy either. > > Any hint would be appreciated.
We do have a ticket about that: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53138
