Hello All, I had similar issues. One thing that greatly improve the installation of dependencies was to increase the number of files that can be open at once. New versions of Mac OS X limit this nb to 256, if you increase it to - let’s say to 1024 - in your session it should help. To find out the max nb of files that you can open at once type in a terminal > ulimit –a, and to increase the number type > ulimit –n1024 Best, JF From: Ifeffit on behalf of Matthew Newville Reply-To: Matthew Newville , XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 10:27 AM To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] port for demeter failure Hi Jason, On Nov 2, 2016 6:28 PM, "justin park" mailto:justin.pchem@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I have followed the steps to install macports on my mac and it seems to be working. However when I went to port in demeter it start and fails rather quickly giving this error message. Error: org.macports.archivefetch for port libcxx returned: archivefetch failed for libcxx @3.7.1_0+universal What do I need to do in macports to get it to properly fetch libcxx? Several of people (including me) have observed that they sometimes need to do "sudo port install" of many of the dependencies (say, libgcc or perl packages), and that sometimes they need to try multiple times. But also: can you give a more complete report of exactly what commands you typed and exactly what the error messages were? "I followed the steps" is actually ambiguous, as you're assuming that we know which steps you followed. We might be able to guess correctly what you actually did, but if you tell us explicitly then we wouldn't have to guess. --Matt

Hi Justin, I had a similar problem. Wayne Lukens’s idea of installing each package individually by ”sudo port install libcxx” worked for me. But I am stuck with perl5.24: sudo port install perl5.24 ---> Computing dependencies for perl5.24 ---> Installing perl5.24 @5.24.0_0 Error: org.macports.install for port perl5.24 returned: no destroot found at: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_perl5/perl5.24/work/destroot Please see the log file for port perl5.24 for details: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_perl5/perl5.24/main.log To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide: http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets Error: Processing of port perl5.24 failed How did you pass that? Thanks, Yuan On 11/3/16, 10:08 AM, "Ifeffit on behalf of justin park" mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov on behalf of justin.pchem@gmail.commailto:justin.pchem@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matt, Thanks for the help. I seem to have gotten it to work by cleaning and then trying the command below multiple times. I had installed macports and then used this command. sudo port install xorg-server demeter and it gave the error Error: org.macports.archivefetch for port libcxx returned: archivefetch failed for libcxx @3.7.1_0+universal then a bunch more lines of code which I assummed were the files it didn't get to in the port. Then it just said Error: port of Demeter failed. I ended up getting past all that. and had another error too many files opened but jean has answered that for me now as well. Thanks for all the help -Justin On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Matthew Newville mailto:matt.newville@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Jason, On Nov 2, 2016 6:28 PM, "justin park" mailto:justin.pchem@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I have followed the steps to install macports on my mac and it seems to be working. However when I went to port in demeter it start and fails rather quickly giving this error message. Error: org.macports.archivefetch for port libcxx returned: archivefetch failed for libcxx @3.7.1_0+universal What do I need to do in macports to get it to properly fetch libcxx? Several of people (including me) have observed that they sometimes need to do "sudo port install" of many of the dependencies (say, libgcc or perl packages), and that sometimes they need to try multiple times. But also: can you give a more complete report of exactly what commands you typed and exactly what the error messages were? "I followed the steps" is actually ambiguous, as you're assuming that we know which steps you followed. We might be able to guess correctly what you actually did, but if you tell us explicitly then we wouldn't have to guess. --Matt _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.govmailto:Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit Unsubscribe: http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/options/ifeffit