Re: cannot install watchman?

On 11/18/22 5:20 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 11/12/22 9:38 AM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote:
>> When the read only system files for Catalina came out, there are some 
>> issues with acknowledging the command line tools being installed.  
>> Normally the receipts are were put in /System/Library/Receipts but 
>> that directory is not writable anymore.
>>
>> Try downloading and reinstalling the Command Line Tools from 
>> developer.apple.com
>>
>> Also post the actual compiler failure that is listed, it should be 
>> near where the summary lines says "Failed: phase compiling: 
>> watchman-4.9.0-1 failed"
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>> On Nov 12, 2022, at 4:16 AM, Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am still on MacOS catalina and out of a sudden
>>>
>>> hg status
>>>
>>> Gave me watchman not found.
>>>
>>> So I run fink selfupdate
>>> fink install watchman
>>>
>>> But obtain
>>> ,----
>>> | /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-watchman-4.9.0-1
>>> | (Reading database ... 134032 files and directories currently 
>>> installed.)
>>> | Removing fink-buildlock-watchman-4.9.0-1 ...
>>> | Failed: phase compiling: watchman-4.9.0-1 failed
>>> | Before reporting any errors, please run "fink selfupdate" and try 
>>> again.
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>>> Fink's
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>>> | Please try to include the complete error message in your report.  This
>>> | generally consists of a compiler line starting with e.g. "gcc" or 
>>> "g++"
>>> | followed by the actual error output from the compiler.
>>> | Also include the following system information:
>>> | Package manager version: 0.45.6
>>> | Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Nov 12 10:03:13 2022, 
>>> 10.15,
>>> | x86_64
>>> | Trees: local/main stable/main
>>> | Xcode.app: 12.4
>>> | No recognized Xcode CLI installed
>>> | Max. Fink build jobs:  1
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>> Any idea what to do?
>>>
>>> It talks about Xcode, should I actualise that? I barely remember how to
>>> do that.
>>>
>>> Or is it that Catalina is now too old
> 
> Confirming a failure on 10.14.6/Xcode 11.3.1. Unclear if it's a macOS 
> version issue or if a dependency changed
> 
>    CXX      watchman-bser.o
> bser.cpp:345:17: error: offset of on non-standard-layout type 
> 'json_object_t' [-Werror,-Winvalid-offsetof]
>    auto object = json_to_object(obj);
>                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Our watchman is pretty old, but even the immediate next release 
> completely changes the build system and adds many dependencies that we 
> don't have, some of which might be impossible(?).

I made some progress on some deps for upgrading watchman, but one 
library folly [1] wasn't working. Maybe someone will have better luck 
with it.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/folly

Hanspeter



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