cocoa pods update broke something, now "pod update" produces errors

Question

I upgraded from CocoaPods 1.3.1 to 1.5.3. I'm using Xcode 9.2

I have an issue with pod install. Expected it to install all pod dependencies correctly.

Instead, got the following error halfway through:

LoadError - cannot load such file -- macho /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:432:in rescue in dynamic_binary?' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:427:indynamic_binary?' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:164:in block in vendored_dynamic_frameworks' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:163:inselect' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:163:in vendored_dynamic_frameworks' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:172:invendored_static_frameworks' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/sandbox/file_accessor.rb:238:in vendored_static_artifacts' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/generator/xcconfig/aggregate_xcconfig.rb:56:inblock in generate' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/generator/xcconfig/aggregate_xcconfig.rb:56:in each' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/generator/xcconfig/aggregate_xcconfig.rb:56:inany?' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/generator/xcconfig/aggregate_xcconfig.rb:56:in generate' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/generator/xcconfig/aggregate_xcconfig.rb:39:insave_as' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator/target_installer.rb:107:in update_changed_file' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator/aggregate_target_installer.rb:96:inblock in create_xcconfig_file' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator/aggregate_target_installer.rb:93:in each' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator/aggregate_target_installer.rb:93:increate_xcconfig_file' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator/aggregate_target_installer.rb:18:in block in install!' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:142:inmessage' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator/aggregate_target_installer.rb:14:in install!' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator.rb:181:inblock (2 levels) in install_libraries' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator.rb:179:in each' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator.rb:179:inblock in install_libraries' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:142:in message' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator.rb:167:ininstall_libraries' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer/xcode/pods_project_generator.rb:65:in generate!' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:184:inblock in generate_pods_project' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:64:in section' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:183:ingenerate_pods_project' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:119:in install!' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/command/install.rb:41:inrun' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/claide-1.0.2/lib/claide/command.rb:334:in run' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:52:inrun' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/cocoapods-1.5.3/bin/pod:55:in <top (required)>' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin/pod:23:inload' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin/pod:23:in <main>' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:ineval' /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `'

CocoaPods Environment

pod env

Stack

CocoaPods : 1.5.3 Ruby : ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-darwin12.0] RubyGems : 2.5.0 Host : Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1408) Xcode : 9.2 (9C40b) Git : git version 2.14.3 (Apple Git-98) Ruby lib dir : /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/lib Repositories : master - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 0394a8486df6a54691151f75289676af4c7237d5

Installation Source

Executable Path: /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.2 cocoapods-plugins : 1.0.0 cocoapods-search : 1.0.0 cocoapods-stats : 1.0.0 cocoapods-trunk : 1.3.0 cocoapods-try : 1.1.0

Podfile

ruby
platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'IGapp' do
  # Uncomment the next line if you're using Swift or would like to use dynamic frameworks
use_frameworks!

  # Pods for IGapp
pod 'Firebase/Database'
pod 'Firebase/Storage'
pod 'Firebase/Auth'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 3.0'
pod 'SDWebImage', '~> 4.0'
pod 'TOCropViewController'

  target 'IGappTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

  target 'IGappUITests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

end

I've tried uninstalling and installing ruby macho, but it doesn't help.

gem which macho /Users/kdanielwong/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/ruby-macho-1.2.0/lib/macho.rb

Any idea what else I can try?

Answer 1

Thanks to a comment on the cocoapods GitHub repository, I went to edit the file in the top of the stacktrace (file_accessor.rb) and changed the top line from: autoload :MachO, 'macho' to require 'macho'

And the issue went away!