I am in a right royal mess with some KDE 4 applications and libraries from MacPorts on which I depend. After a failed "sudo port upgrade outdated" run all my KDE 4 apps give OSX popup messages like "kmymoney cannot be opened because of a problem" and they wil not start. The most serious (for me) is KMyMoney, which holds all my finances and investments, and it is time for me to do annual accounting and tax.
I am using OSX 10.7.5 Lion and MacPorts 2.4.1. It was some time since I had done a port upgrade outdated, maybe a year or more. However a "sudo port selfupdate" showed that I was already at macports 2.4.1. I then ran and saved lists of requested and outdated ports and uninstalled a few ports I no longer need. Then I started "sudo port upgrade outdated". The terminal output ended with multiple repetititions of: Warning: reinplace /include/s@\(utils\.h\)@src/\1@g didn't change anything in /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_akonadi/akonadi/work/akonadi-1.13.1.20141210/server/tests/unittest/searchtest.cpp Followed by: ---> Configuring akonadi Error: akonadi does not support your selected MacPorts C++ runtime. libc++ must be selected and C++-based ports built against it. Error: Please follow the instructions on https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems. Error: After adding the required options to macports.conf, reinstall all ports like you would when switching macOS versions. Error: Follow step 3 on https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration in order to do this. Error: Failed to configure akonadi: libstdc++ unsupported. Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_akonadi/akonadi/main.log for details. Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug. I understand what these messages mean and I have read the Macports Wiki pages referred to, but I am uncertain what to do next. 1. Do I need to do any cleanup of the failed run before doing anything else? If so, what command(s) should I use? 2. I had a local ports tree that I no longer use. I have commented out the reference to it in sources.conf but do I need to re-run portindex? Or would that have been taken care of when I ran "sudo port selfupdate"? I have not found any way to re-index and include just the standard ports. 3. Can I revert to earlier versions of apps and libraries (which could at least be used to keep my accountant happy)? If so, what commands should I use? There are scores, maybe hundreds, of ports to be reactivated and there are probably lots that are old but still active, because the upgrade run never got to them. 4. If I stay with Lion, I understand that I have to uninstall everything, make some adjustments to macports.conf and then re-build from source and continue to do so into the future. OTOH I could go down to the Apple shop and get them to upgrade me to Sierra and then I could re-install MacPorts apps from binaries but I would also have to upgrade other non-Apple software I depend on a lot every day, mainly Firefox and LibreOffice. Either approach could take days (elapsed) and many hours of computer time. Which way would be best for me to go? I used to be a KDE developer until about 2 years ago, so I am happy working with commands and scripts, and I have saved lists of requested ports and of the new and old versions of outdated ports. Hope you can help, Ian W.
