It looks like GNU coreutils does support that option.
See: https://serverfault.com/questions/455987/readlink-illegal-option-f
Temporarily adding ${prefix}/libexec/gnubin/ to your path should work around
this build issue.
Marius
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> On Jul 27, 2025, at 11:38 PM, Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> MacBook Pro (mid-2010) running High Sierra 10.13.6.
>
> MacPorts 2.11.3 (updated this morning).
>
> Running my weekly update, I get:
>
> Error: Failed to destroot wxWidgets-3.2: command execution failed
> Error: See
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_aarnet.au.rsync.macports.org_pub_macports_graphics_wxWidgets-3.2/wxWidgets-3.2/main.log
> for details.
> Error: Problem while installing wxWidgets-3.2
>
> The main.log is attached.
>
> It looks suspiciously like something is calling "readlink" with an illegal
> "-f" flag which seems a bit odd.
>
> How could I have stuffed up, or may we expect another update to MacPorts
> itself?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Dave<main.log.gz>
Marius
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