Helo Rayan,
Thanks for yout time, and your explanation. my laziness have been punished! i did not follow the procedure: Deinstall ports, and so on!!! Many thanks. Raoul > On 23 Oct 2018, at 10:20, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2018, at 01:26, rmgls wrote: > >> Source-hiLight failed to compile! >> Main.log attached. >> >> any idea? > > The log shows you're using Xcode 10 with clang 1000.11.45.2 on macOS 10.14. > > The error in the log is: > > :info:build /opt/local/bin/ranlib: object: .libs/libgnu.a(dirname-lgpl.o) > malformed object (unknown load command 1) > :info:build ar: internal ranlib command failed > > So you're compiling using the latest clang, but you have the cctools port > installed, which provides ranlib and other related programs, and it's not > able to understand the object files that clang produced. > > Unfortunately MacPorts cctools is old (it's equivalent to Xcode 8.1) and is > not compatible with the clang in Xcode 9 or later. This is because > unfortunately Apple has not released the source code of newer versions of > cctools, so we cannot update the copy in MacPorts to anything newer. > > The cctools port should have detected that you were using Xcode 9 or later > and should have installed itself with the +xcode variant, which makes it > install only symlinks to Xcode's copies of the programs, instead of building > its own older copies, and that should have worked. > > Since it didn't work, can you verify which variant of cctools is installed? > Run `port -v installed cctools` to find out. If it does not show the +xcode > variant selected, reinstall cctools with the +xcode variant by running `sudo > port install cctools +xcode`, then `sudo port clean source-highlight` and try > again. >
