Can't update Macports (with Mac OS X Mavericks)

Question

After upgrading Mac OS X to newest version Mavericks, I attempted to selfupdate my Macports, but it failed:

$ sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPo         


        

Answer 1

I answered a similar question. The location of the Tcl framework has changed, breaking the existing MacPorts infrastructure. The 2.2.1 installer for Mavericks has since become available here. Make a list of your installed ports, and consider deleting /opt/local prior to installing. You will likely need to 'update' everything anyway.

Answer 2

there is an actual bug with

gperf @3.0.4: error: expected parameter declarator

thankfully this issue has its own ticket at MacPorts ticket 40918

if anything you could read all the issues in Mavericks at http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MavericksProblems

Answer 3

I had the same issue. I am assuming that you had Xcode command line utils installed previously. Just launch XCODE and let it finish configuration. Now rerun port command and it should work properly.

Answer 4

I mainly wanted to comment on @Brett's answer above (sorry, SO n00b still, not allowed) and share my experience upgrading... not really a new answer, but hopefully some useful info.

I downloaded and installed the Mavericks MacPorts installer as described above, (but without removing /opt, as suggested by @King Julian did self update which was fine, and then upgrade outdated and it seems to be uninstalling and reinstalling all my ports with a message:

Warning: Deactivate forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.

on each one. Luckily i made a copy of the etc and apache2/conf dirs, so should be able to get my config back when it eventually finishes... after 30 minutes or so it threw an error

Unable to open port: extra characters after close-quote

So i did self update again and upgrade outdated seems to run again...

So looks like it can be done (LAMP all working anyway) - it might have been quicker to start again from scratch, but make sure you have at least a couple of hours spare for this (and be connected to mains power ;)

Apologies if too much info, but hope it helps!

Answer 5

Install the "Command Line Tools" first:

sudo xcode-select --install

(Explicitly agreeing to the license is sometimes necessary via "sudo xcodebuild -license")

Then upgrade the ports:

sudo port -v selfupdate

Answer 6

There might be a chance that you haven't agreed with the XCode license. If xcode-install doesn't help, you can run the belowing command to agree with Xcode license. sudo xcodebuild -license