On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:10 PM Enrico Tusini wrote:

Hey there, I have this problem with the installation of Athena package on Mac Mojave :

Failed to build pgplot: command execution failed Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_pgplot/pgplot/main.log for details. Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug. Error: Processing of port demeter failed

I’ll be very thankful for any suggestion.

Hm, yes I also see this with a fresh MacPorts install on OS 10.14.6 ("Somewhere in California"). The log file shows that pgplot is failing to build as it cannot link to some system library. I have not investigated further than that. Because of this failure to build pgplot, ifeffit cannot be installed. And because of that, Demeter cannot be installed. It is all sort of unfortunate because ifeffit does not exactly require pgplot, and Demeter would not use that plotting library anyway. I don't maintain any of the MacPorts recipes. Just to be clear, the last release of PGPLOT was in February 2001. Support and updates for ifeffit ended about five years ago. Now, it is all free software so anyone else interested is welcome to use it for as long as you like. But bugs won't be fixed by the original developers and someone else will have to maintain it.... until they don't. Maybe someone will fix this eventually. There have been a really large number of the questions here in the past year have been about getting Demeter working on macOS. I think we are going to have to face up to the fact that Demeter is not supported on macOS, and that if you want to use Demeter on a machine running macOS, you'll have to use a virtual machine like Parallels. --Matt