Any pointers as to what I can do to fix this ? :-) see : https://macports.mathiesen.info/logs/libgcc8_main.log the failure seems to be this :
/macports/bin/clang++-mp-8.0 -arch i386 -std=gnu++98 -g -DIN_GCC -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -W -Wall -Wno-narrowing -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wno-format -Wmissing-format-attribute -Woverloaded-virtual -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -fno-common -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -fno-PIE -L/macports/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -no-pie -o build/gengenrtl \ build/gengenrtl.o build/errors.o ../build-i386-apple-darwin10/libiberty/libiberty.a clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-nopie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument] ld: illegal text-relocation to '___stdoutp' in /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib from '_main' in build/gengenrtl.o for architecture i386 clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make[3]: *** [build/gengenrtl] Error 1 I've got this in my macports.conf : (cf https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems ) cxx_stdlib libc++ buildfromsource always default_compilers macports-clang-8.0 macports-clang-7.0 macports-clang-3.9 macports-clang-3.7 gcc-4.2 apple-gcc-4.2 gcc-4.0 #=> port installed *gcc* clang* llvm* The following ports are currently installed: clang-3.7 @3.7.1_5+analyzer (active) clang-3.9 @3.9.1_9+analyzer+libstdcxx (active) clang-7.0 @7.0.1_1+analyzer+defaultlibcxx+emulated_tls+libstdcxx (active) clang-8.0 @8.0.0_0+analyzer+defaultlibcxx+emulated_tls+libstdcxx (active) clang_select @2_0 (active) gcc6 @6.1.0_0 (active) gcc_select @0.1_8 (active) libgcc @6.1.0_0 (active) llvm-3.5 @3.5.2_9 (active) llvm-3.7 @3.7.1_4 (active) llvm-3.9 @3.9.1_5 (active) llvm-7.0 @7.0.1_1+emulated_tls (active) llvm-8.0 @8.0.0_0+emulated_tls (active) llvm_select @2_0 (active) #=> port outdated *gcc* The following installed ports are outdated: gcc6 6.1.0_0 < 6.5.0_4 libgcc 6.1.0_0 < 2.0_2 (epoch 2 < 3) -- Bjarne D Mathiesen Korsør ; Danmark ; Europa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denne besked er skrevet i et (næsten) M$-frit miljø MacOS X 10.13.6 High Sierra ; 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ; 16GB 1067MHz DDR3