Problems building on MacOS via depends, without NO_QT=1 #14648

When running cd depends && make HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin on MacOS 10.13.6, the following error appears:

➜  depends git:(2182094c6) make HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
builders/darwin.mk:1: *** empty variable name.  Stop.

A fix is here for this initial problem: 63c74d2, but then the following error appears:

make[4]: Entering directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic'
cd tuiotouch/ && ( test -e Makefile || /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/bin/qmake -o Makefile /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic/tuiotouch/tuiotouch.pro ) && make -f Makefile clean
make[5]: Entering directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic/tuiotouch'
rm -f .moc/moc_predefs.h
rm -f .moc/moc_qtuiohandler_p.cpp
rm -f .moc/main.moc
rm -f .obj/main.o .obj/qoscbundle.o .obj/qoscmessage.o .obj/qtuiohandler.o .obj/moc_qtuiohandler_p.o
rm -f *~ core *.core
make[5]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic/tuiotouch'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase'
Info: creating stash file /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qttranslations/.qmake.stash
Info: creating stash file /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qttools/.qmake.stash
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: xml
make: *** [funcs.mk:245: /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/.stamp_configured] Error 3

Removing the -no-feature-xml option in qt.mk just causes a followup error that is equally problematic, involving libQt5Xml not being found:

make[1]: *** No rule to make target '/Users/Jon/bsha3/bsha3-ravened/bsha3/repo/bsha3/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0/qt/5.9.6-d39a0d42aab/qtbase/lib/libQt5Xml.a', needed by '../../../bin/lrelease'.  Stop.

Any ideas?

/Users/Jon/bsha3/bsha3-ravened/bsha3/repo/bsha3/depends

Are you sure you are building Bitcoin Core? If so, which commit?

c34c821 was the latest commit being built from.

(Resolved; Below are my notes, with solution at bottom)

Just retried - I think that @fanquake's investigation found and solved the problem. On the tty that failed, make -v = 3.8.1. But really, the latest installation is 4.2.1 (had updated via Homebrew: brew install make; separate/fresh tty; didn't restart the machine).

BTW, It says that make 3.8.1 is built for i386-apple-darwin-11.3.0, and 4.2.1 is built for x86_64-apple-darwin-17.7.0. Not sure if that could be problematic.

Regardless, I open a fresh Terminal, and retry the command in the same directory. Results:

cd depends
make HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin-17.7.0

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
checking host system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-apple-darwin-17.7.0': machine `x86_64-apple-darwin' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub x86_64-apple-darwin-17.7.0 failed
make: *** [funcs.mk:245: /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin-17.7.0/libevent/2.1.8-stable-6274537465d/./.stamp_configured] Error 1
➜  depends git:(6b8d0a216)  

Hmm - freshening up and trying once more:

git clean -xdf
cd depends
make HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin-17.7.0

make[5]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic/tuiotouch'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins/generic'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src/plugins'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase'
Info: creating stash file /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qttranslations/.qmake.stash
Info: creating stash file /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qttools/.qmake.stash
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: xml
make: *** [funcs.mk:245: /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/qt/5.9.6-9fd589a8fba/qtbase/.stamp_configured] Error 3

Solution

Only works with NO_QT=1:

cd depends
make HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin NO_QT=1

 -fno-common -DMINIUPNPC_SET_SOCKET_TIMEOUT -DMINIUPNPC_GET_SRC_ADDR -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE   -c -o upnpdev.o upnpdev.c
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.10 -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -fPIC -pipe -O2 -I/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/x86_64-apple-darwin/include -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-common -DMINIUPNPC_SET_SOCKET_TIMEOUT -DMINIUPNPC_GET_SRC_ADDR -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE   -c -o minissdpc.o minissdpc.c
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool -static -o libminiupnpc.a miniwget.o minixml.o igd_desc_parse.o minisoap.o miniupnpc.o upnpreplyparse.o upnpcommands.o upnperrors.o connecthostport.o portlistingparse.o receivedata.o upnpdev.o minissdpc.o
make[1]: Leaving directory '/Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/miniupnpc/2.0.20180203-a8fc65c5702'
Staging miniupnpc...
Postprocessing miniupnpc...
Caching miniupnpc...
copying packages: native_biplist native_ds_store native_mac_alias boost openssl libevent zeromq bdb miniupnpc
to: /Users/Jon/bitcoin/depends/x86_64-apple-darwin

All on a Macbook Pro 2014 running MacOS 10.13.6.